Data extracted on 30 Jan 2016 03:32 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
G7, Danish, Australian and New Zealand marginal income tax and social security contribution rates
31 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, social insurance, Social Security taxes, taxation and labour supply
Ordinary French, Germans, Italians and Danish pay much higher marginal tax rates and that is before their high rates of GST.
Data extracted on 30 Jan 2016 03:08 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Better than Sweden! All-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by New Zealand, Swedish and Danish family type
27 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, public economics Tags: Denmark, family tax credits, family taxation, in-work tax credits, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
Nordic all-in average personal income tax rates at average wage by family type – corrected
25 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in public economics Tags: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
US, Danish and NZ long-term male unemployment @grantrobertson1 @nzlabour
19 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in Euro crisis, great recession, job search and matching, labour economics, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, unemployment Tags: Denmark, employment law, employment protection, flexicurity, labour market regulation, social insurance, welfare state
https://twitter.com/KiwiLiveNews/status/688503382181449728
My search for an example of how Danish flexicurity might have an advantage over the status quo in the New Zealand labour market is still to yield results. Danish flexicurity is no better than New Zealand and often worse in keeping long-term male unemployment rates down as the charts below show. The flexicurity model combines flexible hiring and firing with a generous social safety net and an extensive system of activation policies for the unemployed.
Data extracted on 18 Jan 2016 21:55 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The charts above and below do show is that a more generous social safety net for the unemployed introduced with the onset of the Great Recession in the USA was followed by a sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment.
Data extracted on 18 Jan 2016 21:55 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Danish, NZ, UK & US statutory protections against layoffs @grantrobertson1@nzlabour
18 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in job search and matching, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Denmark, employment law, employment protection, labour market regulation
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Denmark is all the go in the New Zealand Labour Party as a model for labour market flexibility despite the fact that it is much more heavily regulated than either New Zealand or the USA.
Danish and New Zealand unemployment rates since 1960 @nzlabour @grantrobertson1
17 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, unemployment Tags: Denmark, employment law, labour market deregulation
The Labor Party thinks the Danish labour market is something of a model for New Zealand despite its inferior performance on unemployment.
Data extracted on 17 Jan 2016 03:44 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Danish and New Zealand equilibrium unemployment rates since 1972 @nzlabour @grantrobertson1
17 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - New Zealand, unemployment Tags: Denmark, employment law, equilibrium unemployment rate, labour market deregulation
https://twitter.com/KiwiLiveNews/status/688503382181449728
The Labour Party wants the New Zealand labour market to be more like that in Denmark. The early 1990s recession New Zealand aside, New Zealand has always had a lower equilibrium unemployment rate than Denmark.
Data extracted on 17 Jan 2016 03:29 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
@Greenpeace why are German and Danish power prices so high?
24 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, Big Wind, bootleggers and baptists, climate alarmism, Denmark, Germany, green rent seeking, power prices, solar power, wind power
How Scandinavian Countries Pay for Their Government Spending
20 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics Tags: Denmark, Finland, growth of government, Norway, Scandinavia, size of government, Sweden, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Equilibrium unemployment rates in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, 1969 – 2017
13 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, unemployment Tags: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
Equilibrium unemployment rates are creeping up on all Scandinavian countries bar Norway.
Data extracted on 10 Nov 2015 07:07 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Do the European welfare states free ride off American entrepreneurship and innovation?
12 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA, public economics, survivor principle, taxation, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, Daron Acemoglu, Denmark, entrepreneurial alertness, Eurosclerosis, international technology diffusion, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and innovation, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, technology followers, welfare state
Source: Daron Acemoglu A Scandinavian U.S. Would Be a Problem for the Global Economy – NYTimes.com.
Why are Scandinavians so thin? Still few overweight Japanese
08 Nov 2015 1 Comment
in health economics Tags: Denmark, economics of obesity, Finland, Japan, Norway, Scandinavia, Sweden
Swedish and Danish top incomes & union decline @FlipChartRick @EconomicPolicy @PoliticalSift
04 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, entrepreneurship, labour economics, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: Denmark, labour surplus, Sweden, top 1%, union power, union wage premium
The Danish top 1% and top 10% is even lazier than their transnational co-conspirators. No success at all at either grinding the Danish unions down or extracting more labour surplus from the long-suffering Danish proletariat.
Source: OECD StatExtract and Top Incomes Database.
Source: OECD StatExtract and Top Incomes Database.
The Swedish top 10% and top 1% have done a bit better since the economic liberalisation in that country from the early 1990s. But none of that additional labour surplus has anything to do with grinding the unions down because Swedish union membership has not declined.
Source: OECD StatExtract and Top Incomes Database.
Source: OECD StatExtract and Top Incomes Database.
Real GDP per working age British, Dane and Swede 1950 – 2012, PPP
24 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history Tags: British disease, British economy, Common market, customs unions, Denmark, European Union, Margaret Thatcher, Sweden, Swedosclerosis
Source: Computed from OECD StatExtract and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
Source: Computed from OECD StatExtract and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015, http://www.conference-board.org/data/economydatabase/
The data is detrended at 1.9% per year – the trend rate of growth for the USA in the 20th century. A rising line means growth greater than 1.9% for that year, a falling line means growth of less than 1.9% for the year. A flat line is growth of 1.9% for that year.
Britain, Sweden and Denmark all grew quickly up until the 1970s in a period known as post-war catch up.In the 1970s and early 1980s, there was the British disease. The 1970s to the early 1990s was Swedosclerosis. There was a boom in the British economy subsequent to the economics of Mrs Thatcher.
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