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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9719 Kory Kroft
Kavan Kucko
Etienne Lehmann
Johannes F. Schmieder
Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal, Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (1), 254-292.)
H21, J22, J23
9718 Richard V. Burkhauser
Nicolas Herault
Stephen P. Jenkins
Roger Wilkins
What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326)
D31, C81
9717 Felix Koenig
Alan Manning
Barbara Petrongolo
Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical ...
(forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024)
E24, J31, J64
9716 Christian Dreger
Reinhold Kosfeld
Yanqun Zhang
Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?
Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese ...
(published in: Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2019, 31 (1-2), 44 - 59)
J30, R23, C23
9715 Carl Lin
Myeong-Su Yun
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China
The minimum wage has been regarded as an important element of public policy for reducing poverty and inequality. Increasing the minimum wage is supposed to raise earnings for millions of low-wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212)
J31, J38, O15, R23
9714 Juan David Robalino
Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?
In this paper I analyze adolescent peer effects on cigarette consumption while considering the 'popularity' of peers. The analysis is based on AddHealth data, a four wave panel survey representative ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2018, 13 (7), e0189360.)
I1
9713 Almas Heshmati
The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a ...
(published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, 2016, 64-70)
H75, I15, I18, I38, P36
9709 Philip Susser
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement ...
(short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51 (6), 2305-2317)
I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
9708 Ayako Kondo
Masahiro Shoji
Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima
Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 113, 103195)
J20, J64
9707 Nicholas Bardsley
Milena Buechs
Sylke V. Schnepf
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to ...
(revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.)
C13, D04, D12, H23
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