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Using a difference-in-difference approach and cross-sectional data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, it is shown that high levels of employment protection increase absenteeism by up to 35 percent or about 3 days/year.
The importance of the design of the income tax system for the incentive to supply effort is considered in a situation where firms set wages. A tax reform raising marginal taxes at all income levels and increasing (decreasing) average taxes at high (low) income levels may lead to higher wages, lower employment and higher unemployment.
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