Department of Economics (ECON) Titler
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befolkning, arbejdsstyrke, beskæftigelse, erhvervLund, Lars (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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priser og realindkomstLund, Lars (København, 1999)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Real income on Bornholm is described by comparing the region with the capital area and the country. Region specific prices are constructed for housing expenditure and for services. Weights for these parts of household budgets and the residual are found from panel surveys of household consumption. Relative prices of the consumption bundle for each year in the period 1987 to 1996 are found for both those who own there dwelling and those who rent it. Median incomes for entrepreneurs, employees and workers are constructed. Combining data on incomes and on relative prices gives estimates of real incomes. The result is that households of employed persons are relatively rich on Bornholm during the period. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7609 Filer i denne post: 1
1999_7.pdf (233.2Kb) -
Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996Lund, Lars (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Lund, Lars (København, 2006)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: A new local government structure is announced for Greenland from 2009. If the reform is carried through, Nanortalik the most southerly town will come together with Qaqortoq, then the new centre, and Narsaq. A suggestion by the mayor of Nanortalik about the number of civil servants that should move to the centre is the basis for calculating the potential loss of gross income (wages and profits) in the first years of the reform. With the civil servants follow some adults and children. On top of the direct loss of income come derived losses determined by a multiplier process. The size of the multiplier is estimated to be around 1,25. This is based on assumptions about income levels, expenditure patterns, and local income parts of sales. Full implementation of the reform could mean a loss of 5 plus percent of gross income. If other probable losses (e.g. fewer elected members of the local authority) are added in, the loss could rise to more than 7 percent. Tax rates are assumed not to be lowered by the departure of civil servants to the centre. To the contrary an increase in the tax rate for Nanortalik is envisaged as this small town in these years enjoys an advantage from taxing local people and foreign skilled workers operating a nearby gold mine. It is stressed that the paper doesn’t evaluate the proposal for a reform, neither for the South of Greenland nor for Greenland as a whole. It is about possible very short term local effects URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7521 Filer i denne post: 1
wp3-2006.pdf (346.9Kb) -
Kristoffersen, Jannie H. G.; Bødker, Sofie (Frederiksberg, 2014)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Det er vigtigt at evaluere sociale indsatser. Ikke mindst for at kunne kortlægge, hvordan de deltagende i diverse indsatser bliver hjulpet, men også til at se, hvilke indsatser der virker bedst. Ved hjælp af to simple grundprincipper kan man sikre sig, at sociale indsatser efterfølgende kan evalueres kvantitativt. Dette notat er tænkt til inspiration til diverse koordinatorer i offentlig- og privat regi, som skal implementere sociale indsatser og efterfølgende kunne evaluere dem. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9093 Filer i denne post: 1
metodenotat_2.pdf (226.8Kb) -
Labour Market Implications of a Compressed Wage Structure when Education and Training are EndogenousMalchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Skaksen, Jan Rose (København, 2003)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We consider the economic implications of a compressed wage structure which is exogenously determined by institutions. An important feature of our analysis is that human capital is endogenous and can be achieved either as formal education or as informal training within firms after entering the labour market. While institutional wage compression decreases the incentives of individuals to become educated, it increases the incentives of firms to invest in training. As a result, the net effects of wage compression on the aggregate human capital level and GDP are ambiguous. Moreover, with wage compression, a skillbiased technological change may cause wage inequality to decrease. Keywords: Wage compression, training, education, inequality, institutions, skill-biased technological change. JEL: I21, J31, J5, O33. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7574 Filer i denne post: 1
cebr dp 2003-09.pdf (267.7Kb) -
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2015)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in the other sector and the effect on labour market performance therefore depends on whether discrimination is present in only one sector or in both sectors. Discrimination may induce workers to train more or less than natives after having lost their skills, dependent upon which sector there is discrimination. Net output tends to the be most negatively affected by discrimination among high-skilled workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9157 Filer i denne post: 1
wp_2-2015_Larsen_Waisman.pdf (1.231Mb) -
Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela (Frederiksberg, 2012)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present. Welfare tends to be most negatively affected by discrimination among highproductivity workers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8520 Filer i denne post: 1
Larsen_Waisman_wp2012-5.pdf (374.6Kb) -
Filges, Trine; Kennes, John; Larsen, Birthe; Tranæs, Torben (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity and where the government seeks both effiency and equity. Frictions in the matching process create unemployment and differently skilled workers face different unemployment risks. We show that in such an environment, training programmes that are targeted to the unemployed complement passive transfers (UI benefits), unlike a general training subsidy. Combining passive subsidies with a training subsidy conditioned on the individual being unemployed (for a while) - the typical Active Labour Market Programme - implies a favorable trade-off between equity and efficiency which encourages high spending on training. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7511 Filer i denne post: 1
wp 2005.11equity.pdf (230.2Kb) -
the effect of the vote of confidence procedureBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2002)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Delegation and Influence Under Alternative Political StructuresBennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper studies how interest group lobbying of the bureaucracy affects policy outcomes and how it changes the legislature’s willingness to delegate decision-making authority to the bureaucracy. We extend the standard model of delegation to account for interest group influence during the implementation stage of policy and apply it to different institutional structures of government. The paper addresses the following questions: First, how does the decision to delegate change when the bureaucratic agent is subject to external influence? What cost does this influence impose on the legislative principal? Finally, how susceptible are policy choices to bureaucratic lobbying under different government structures? In answering these questions, the paper seeks to provide a comparative theory of lobbying and to explain the different patterns of interest group activity across political systems. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7561 Filer i denne post: 1
wpec042004.pdf (256.8Kb) -
Bennedsen, Morten; Feldmann, Sven E. (København, 2000)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Labour Market, Health Care and Prescription DrugsHøjbjerg Jacobsen, Rasmus (Frederiksberg, 2011)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper uses a register dataset for the entire Danish population to examine the effect of early motherhood on labour market measures, health care measures and family measures for the mothers and their offspring. The dataset is divided into three groups according to the age of the woman at the time of her first child delivery. Using standard cross-sectional econometric techniques the results show that very young mothers (aged 16-21) have significantly lower employment rates, higher propensity to receive welfare benefits and a lower wage income. Children of very young mothers have a higher family replacement rate, more services received from General Practitioners and a higher propensity to receive ADHD-medications. The majority of the effects reported are also significantly greater for mothers who were aged 22-25 at the birth of their first child compared to older mothers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8377 Filer i denne post: 1
Rasmus_Hoejbjerg_Jacobsen_wp_2011.pdf (92.36Kb) -
problems, policies and prospectsAndersen, Torben M.; Hougaard Jensen, Svend E.; Risager, Ole (København, 1998)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: Over the last 25 years the Danish economy has had difficulties in growing as fast as other EU countries and the United States. While the average growth difference is small, it signals that if this trend persists into the next century, Denmark will not be able to maintain its high position in the world income hierarchy. Moreover, during these years, the number of individuals living on transfer incomes have increased dramatically. Although we interpret both tendencies as signals of structural weaknesses, we are also aware that these developments may reflect that other goals in economic policy have been pursued, such as protecting the environment and/or achieving certain redistributive objectives. This paper analyzes this and other broad policy issues of importance for Denmark. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7612 Filer i denne post: 1
1998_18.pdf (175.5Kb) -
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Møllgaard, Peter; Overgaard, Per Baltzer (København, 2001)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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A Tax Optimality IndexRaimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. (København, 2004)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper introduces an index of tax optimality that measures the distance of some current tax structure from the optimal tax structure in the presence of public goods. In doing so, we derive a [0, 1] number that reveals immediately how far the current tax configuration is from the optimal one and, thereby, the degree of efficiency of a tax system. We call this number the Tax Optimality Index. We show how the basic method can be altered in order to derive a revenue equivalent uniform tax, which measures the size of the public sector. A numerical example is used to illustrate the method developed. JEL Code: H21, H41. Keywords: Tax optimality index, excess burden, distance function. Authors Affiliations: Raimondos-Møller: Copenhagen Business School, CEPR, CESifo, and EPRU. Woodland: University of Sydney. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7534 Filer i denne post: 1
wpec052004.pdf (385.9Kb) -
Marker-Larsen, Svend (København, 2005)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
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Schneider, Cedric (København, 2008)[Flere oplysninger][Færre oplysninger]
Resume: This paper analyzes the effects of mixed public-private R&D incentives and empirically tests whether patents that were publicly sponsored are more important than non-subsidized ones. Blending patents and public subsidies will allow the funding agency to subsidize inventions that would otherwise not elicit investment because the private incentive will not fully cover the cost of the invention. Thus, the policy maker will only subsidize inventions that have a high social value. The empirical analysis shows that subsidized inventions result in more important patents, as measured by the number of forward citations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7662 Filer i denne post: 1
wp6-2008.pdf (150.8Kb)