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We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between … domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981–2005, we find that the elasticity of … domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a year for countries with high barriers to external labor mobility, but about …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and … perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted wage offers for workers who move from …
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This paper assesses the responsiveness of wages and labor force movements to employment shocks across British and U ….S. regions and across Europe using a multivariate vector autoregression technique. The paper finds inflexible real wages in all …
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This paper quantifies the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania using two alternative methods: rolling regressions and pooled mean group estimator. The analysis is motivated by the systematic variation of tax revenues observed over the economic cycle in the recent past. Both methods...
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The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open … semi-elasticity of the stock of M and E with respect to the METR is about -0.2, suggesting, for example, that a 5 …
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aggregate demand shocks. Wage flexibility in response to energy price shocks guarantees workers higher real wages without …
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This paper assesses a possible explanation for the global downward trend in top personal income tax rates over the last decades: globalization and the related tax evasion and avoidance opportunities could have raised elasticities of taxable income, which would imply lower optimal tax rates. The...
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trade data. We impose homogeneity, and find an aggregate elasticity similar in value to conventional macroeconomic estimates …
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advanced Europe, where wages are more closely related to inflation and inflation expectations in the short run, implying …
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This paper provides an overview of the relation between tax policy and gender equality, covering labor, capital and wealth, as well as consumption taxes. It considers implicit and explicit gender biases and corrective taxation. On labor taxes, we discuss the well-established findings on female...
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