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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Labor income"”.
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Optimal labor income taxation with perks
… authority. If it is well known, in fact, that labor contracts tying wages to performance may mitigate the efficiency costs from unobservable effort, it is also an empirical fact that real word contracts, and the incentives provided wherein, are more frequently based on some sort of non-monetary …
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Social Security reforms, retirement plans, and saving under labor income uncertainty
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1998.
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Economic Interrelationships and Impacts of the Aviation/Aerospace Industry in the State of Florida using Input-Output Analysis
… 2012.</p> <p>This research concluded the average labor income of the aviation and aerospace industry was higher than average labor income in Florida and VC. A substantive difference between the Florida and VC average labor income for the aviation and aerospace industry existed because VC’s …
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The excess smoothness puzzle in consumption
… smoothness" puzzle which means that permanent income is more volatile than consumption. There have been two major explanations of this puzzle. One is that the existence of excess sensitivity spreads the effect of a permanent income innovation over multiple periods. The other is that a …
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Tax policies, vintage capital, and exit and entry of plants
… taxation by discussing how taxes on capital income, labor income, and property affect the economy in the context of a vintage capital model where the embodied technology grows exogenously. The government maximizes social welfare by finding the optimal combinations of the three tax rates in …
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Essays on optimal taxation
This thesis studies the optimal income tax scheme in four different settings. Chapter 1 focuses on the implications of lack of commitment for the optimal labor and capital income tax rates. It finds that it is optimal to converge to zero capital income taxes and positive labor income taxes in the …
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Stochastic Control, Optimal Saving, and Job Search in Continuous Time
… on the impact of the uncertainty in capital and labor income on the individual saving behavior. The underlying uncertain variables are here modeled as stochastic processes that each obey a specific stochastic differential equation, where uncertainty stems either from Poisson or Lévy processes. …
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Essays on insurance and taxation
… optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax system in which …
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Essays on annuitization and housing choice
Chapter 1 For most US households, labor income is the most important source of wealth and housing is the most important risky asset. A natural intuition is thus that households whose incomes covary relatively strongly with housing prices should own relatively little housing. Under plausible …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… of economic growth in developing economies is income inequality. Thus many studies in macroeconomic theory have attempted to determine what are the main ways in which inequality can be reduced. Redistributive fiscal policy has been considered an important way to reduce inequality and increase …
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Timing and expectations in the theory of taxation
… are changing through time. The comprehensive income base, the consumption base, and the labor income tax base are each considered in terms of their efficiency attributes and their implications for both the magnitude and form of capital accumulation. This analysis illustrates that the labor …
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An Analysis of the Logging Sector in East Texas: Current Status and Future Prospects
… 3,860 total jobs, $178 million in total labor income, $216 million in total value added, and $365 million in total output in 2021. The total economic contribution from 2012 to 2021 was determined which provided insights that, on average, the contribution has increased over the past decade …
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Effects of Parental Attitudes Toward Intergenerational Support on Net Worth: Examinations by Race and Ethnicity
… two types of net worth differently. Change in labor income was the only variable that supported the hypothesized relationships with change in financial saving net worth and change in housing net worth in all three racial/ethnic groups. Out of eight variables, four variables for Whites, five …
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Essays on International Trade and Development
… is decomposed using an individual-level Korean labor income survey. This dissertation finds the role of industry capital intensity and firm productivity in the differential choices of global sourcing such as vertical FDI and foreign outsourcing. Also, this dissertation finds that input …
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Behavioral Biases in General Equilibrium: Implications for Wealth Inequality and Human Capital Formation
… who are finitely lived, subject to idiosyncratic labor income shocks, and heterogeneous in both exponential and present-biased discount factors. My primary goal is characterizing the contribution of behavioral biases towards resolving several issues in the literature pertaining to human capital …
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The Economic Impact of Investment in the Food Processing Industry in US Rural Counties: The Case of Scott County, Virginia
… respect to changes in output, employment, and income. Several uses for the commercial cannery are considered, such as specialization in different product categories. In both cases, an input-output model is used to evaluate the effects of the operation of the cannery in the county. The results …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
… effect on employment-to-population ratios and labor force participation rates. This paper finds that the RAP in 22 counties (by proxy, tribes) studied do not follow the income effect. Instead, the study suggests that windfall (or non-labor) income on these tribes has a positive, yet small, …
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Labor risk sharing
In this paper we aim to test the extent of labor risk sharing exists in thai village economies. Specifically we test the null hypothesis of full risk sharing at the village level. We outline a simple planner's problem that motivates our empirical specification. Our empirical specification consists …
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Hidden Consequences of Remittances: The micro impact of remittance flows in the Albanian remittance-receiving households' behavior
… focuses on the impact of remittances on labor market participation using propensity score matching. This part of the dissertation relies on the matching approach for the identification. The nearest neighbor and kernel estimators are used to obtain the matching results. Using instrumental …
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Housing Quality and Tenure Choice in Bogota
… of renting relative to owning and the permanent income. We find evidence that the poorer households delay home purchasing in contrast to the wealthier households, and the workers with unstable labor income are less likely to become homeowners. Furthermore, we estimate price and income …
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