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Progressing Towards Efficiency: The Role for Labor Tax Progression in Reforming Social Security
Makarski, Krzysztof; Tyrowicz, Joanna; Komada, Oliwia - 2022
show that the progressive labor tax can partially substitute for the redistribution in social security, thus reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177741
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Bequest Division: The Roles of Parental Motives and Children's Gender Composition
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Olivera, Javier; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2025
Drawing on two data sources from across Europe, we show that both bequest motives of parents and children's gender … gender compositions for two fictitious children, hypothetical bequests are most unequally divided under the exchange motive … while children's gender composition matters more under the altruistic motive. Fictitious parents favour daughters regardless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015409270
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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - 2004
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Dr?ze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261790
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The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351856
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Fiscal effects of minimum wages: an analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268938
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn: A model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardesthit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274679
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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
Cattoir, Philippe; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drèze's distributive neutrality condition, we use the generational accounting technique and propose a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822728
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking. This paper suggests a straightforward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682246
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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Bauer, Thomas; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822471
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Self-selection and earnings of emigrants from a welfare state
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - 2009
redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269304