Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling has provided a number of important insights about the interplay between environmental tax policy and the pre-existing tax system. In this paper, we emphasize that a labor market policy of recycling tax revenues from an environmental tax to lower employers’ non-wage labor cost depends on how the costs of labor are modeled. We propose an approach, whi...

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the gender wage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown that in three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insurance industry) the unexplained and potentially discriminatory gender wage differential is substantially larger in the primary than in the...

Manning proposes that the ‘traditional’ monopsony model, once regarded as an analytical curiosity, be adopted as a widely-applicable description of firms’ behavior in labor markets. In Manning’s view, search frictions in the labor market generate upwardsloping labor supply curves to individual firms even when firms are small relative to the labor market. Thus a model of ‘monopsonistic competiti...

An important source of antagonism between ethnic groups is hypothesized to be a split labor market, i.e. one in which there is a large differential in price of labor for the same occupation. The price of labor is not a response to race or ethnicity of those entering the labor market. A price differential results from differences in resources and motives which are often correlates of ethnicity. ...

abstract while the level of women’s participation in the labor market is on the rise in the world, the level of participation of iranian women has not proportionately increased, and women constitute only a small portion of the active population in iran. among factors affecting women’s participation in the labor market are the decisions concerning retirement and the willingness to work by the mi...