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Product and labor market deregulation in unionized oligopoly with asymmetric countries
Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium trade model for two integrated countries that are similar in all respects except of the prevailing labor market institutions. In one country, the labor market is perfectly competitive, while in the other country labor unions are active in a...
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Cold progression and its effects on income distribution
Heer, Burkhard; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2003
We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507921
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Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time : a novel method applied to the Covid-19 crisis in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin; … - 2020
The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to take appropriate income-stabilizing countermeasures. To properly design such policy measures, it is important to quantify their effects in real-time. However, data on the...
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The distributional impact of labour market reforms : a model-based assessment
Röger, Werner; Varga, Janos; Veld, Jan in 't; Vogel, Lukas - 2019 - This version: 16 October 2019
This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...
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Inequality in the impact of the Coronavirus shock : evidence from real time surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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The economic effects of Covid-19 in Sweden : a report on income, taxes, distribution, and government support policies
Angelov, Nikolay; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023
, escalating income inequality. Policy simulations indicate government support measures mitigated wage income reduction and … unemployment rise, yet they contributed to income inequality under certain conditions. These results provide insight into the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310061
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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763
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Unionized oligopoly, trade liberalization and location choice
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Froede; Sørgard, Lars - 2002
conventional theoretical wisdom and cannot happen in a corresponding model without unionization. FDI is undertaken partly to win a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541138
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The impact of wage-setting institutions on the incidence of public employment in the OECD : 1960 - 98
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2002
. Greater unionization lowers public sector wage premia, particularly for women, suggesting that some of the public employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410460