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627 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2173
An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
Thai-Thanh Dang, Herwig Immervoll, Daniela Mantovani, Kristian Orsini, Holly Sutherland
also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2164
Income Taxes and Entrepreneurial Choice: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Frank M. Fossen, Viktor Steiner
revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (3), 487-513
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2117
What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries
Benno Torgler, Friedrich Schneider
published in: Social Science Quarterly, 88(2) 2007, 443–470
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2116
Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Etienne Lehmann
revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2114
The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, José Ricardo Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue, Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira
published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2109
Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze, Alexander Spermann
published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2093
Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Nauro F. Campos, Roman Horváth
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (2), 227-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2081
Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital
Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau
published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2022
Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Katarina Keller, Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener
published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1936
Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis
Axel Dreher, Friedrich Schneider
published in: Public Choice, 2010, 144 (1), 215–238
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1933
Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?
Simon Commander, Axel Heitmueller, Laura Tyson
published in: Giddens, Diamond, Liddle (eds): Global Europe, Social Europe. Polity London, 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1894
Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
Alexandre Baclet, Fabien Dell, Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1893
Unreported Labour
Erling Barth, Tone Ognedal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1889
Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen, Panu Poutvaara
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 915-923
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1824
Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits
Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Christine Lietz, Daniela Mantovani, Cathal O'Donoghue, Holly Sutherland, Gerlinde Verbist
published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1810
Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis
Herwig Immervoll, Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Emmanuel Saez
published in: Economic Journal, 2007. 118 (516), 1-44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1727
Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes
Esfandiar Maasoumi, Almas Heshmati
published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1693
Can Democracy Educate a Society?
Hans Gersbach, Lars Siemers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1680
The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
Daniel S. Hamermesh, Joel Slemrod
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1678
Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes
Pierre Cahuc, Andre Zylberberg
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2003-2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1657
Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Alison L. Booth, Melvyn Coles
published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1606
Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data
Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1599
Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Maurice Schiff
published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1570
Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
Maya Bacache-Beauvallet, Etienne Lehmann
published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1559
To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1545
Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation
Sebastian G. Kessing, Kai A. Konrad
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 393-402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1490
Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Hilmar Schneider, Holger Bonin
published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1478
Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
Kai A. Konrad, Amedeo Spadaro
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 171-188
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1460
Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model
Mathias Hungerbühler, Etienne Lehmann, Alexis Parmentier, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1441
Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
Olivier B. Bargain
revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1431
The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003
Friedrich Schneider
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495 - 526
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1413
Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener
published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1381
Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Armin Falk, Urs Fischbacher, Simon Gächter
published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1369
Shifting Perspectives in Pensions
Marek Góra, Edward Palmer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1359
Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Bernard Fortin, Guy Lacroix, Marie Claire Villeval
revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (11-12), 2089-2112.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1344
Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
Arno Riedl, Frans van Winden
published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1283
On the Inefficiency of Inequality
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1172
On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse
Etienne Lehmann, Bruno Van der Linden
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1125
On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules
Tomer Blumkin, Yoram Margalioth, Efraim Sadka
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1167-1176
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1096
Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Bernard M. S. van Praag, Barbara E. Baarsma
published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (500), 224-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1043
Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Friedrich Schneider, Robert Klinglmair
published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642
IZA Discussion Paper No. 966
Optimal Taxation with Capital Accumulation and Wage Bargaining
Tapio K. Palokangas
IZA Discussion Paper No. 958
Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
Tilman Brück, John de New, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (8), 899-911
IZA Discussion Paper No. 937
Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
Wolfgang Eggert, Laszlo Goerke
published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167
IZA Discussion Paper No. 852
The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia
Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 838
Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg, Eric Strobl
revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720
IZA Discussion Paper No. 811
Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Miles Corak, Wen-Hao Chen
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 665
Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
Holger Görg
revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535
IZA Discussion Paper No. 639
Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
Gilles Saint-Paul
published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 637
Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
Holger Bonin, Wolfram Kempe, Hilmar Schneider
published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208
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