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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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Subjektive und objektive Lebenslagen von Arbeitslosen
Faik, Jürgen; Becker, Jens - 2009
Das Diskussionspapier thematisiert die objektive und subjektive Lebenslage von Arbeitslosen in Deutschland im Vergleich zur Gesamtbevölkerung. Die Ergebnisse indizieren eine deutlich schlechtere materielle, d. h. objektive Lebenslage der Arbeitslosen. Dies reflektiert sich in den auf...
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
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Reference-Dependent Effects of Unemployment on Mental Well-Being
Grunow, Martina - Institut für Volkswirschaftlehre, Fakultät für … - 2014
Several contributions to the literature have shown that the perception of the individual employment status depends on the surrounding unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status regarding changes in mental...
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Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach
Jales, Hugo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage … inequality, the size of the informal sector and on labor tax revenues. I show that under reasonable assumptions, cross … strongly affects wage inequality, reducing up to 20% the standard deviation of log-wages, and reduces revenues from labor taxes …
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Labour Market Matters - November 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled “The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei …-Kostenfunktion und Anteilsgleichungen ökonometrisch geschätzt, um den Einfluss der Lohnstruktur auf die Beschäftigungsstruktur zu …
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Migration of international students and mobilizing skills in the MENA Region
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
MENA region. Keywords migration, international students mobility, mobilizing skills, MENA region …
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An Examination of Net Flows in the Australian Labour Market
Dixon, Robert; Freebairn, John; Lim, Guay - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 1, pp. 25-42
In this paper we investigate the behaviour of net flows of persons between employment, unemployment and not in the labour force in Australia between 1979-2003 and the relationship of these flows to changes in the unemployment rate over that period. We find that: flows from unemployment to...
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Regional Unemployment Disparities: Can Fiscal Policy Help?
Groenewold, Nicolaas; Hagger, A.J. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 7 (2004) 1, pp. 13-37
Regional unemployment disparities are widely observed, appear to persist through time and are often a reason for concern on the part of both regional and national governments. This paper constructs a small two-region general-equilibrium model and uses it to assess the effectiveness of...
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