Immo Schott
Université de Montréal
20 Papers
36 Citations
Immo Schott is an academic researcher from Université de Montréal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Productivity & Investment (macroeconomics). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Immo Schott include European University Institute & International Institute of Minnesota.
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Papers
The Employment and Output Effects of Short-Time Work in Germany
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the employment and output effects of the short-time work (STW) policy in Germany between 2009 and 2010 and found that the policy led to a decrease in the allocative efficiency of the labor market resulting in significant output losses.
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Loss-offset provisions in the corporate tax code and misallocation of capital
Baris Kaymak,Immo Schott +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed the distortionary effects of loss offset provisions on investment and assessed the output loss implied by the misallocation of capital, showing that replacing the corporate income tax with a revenue-neutral value-added tax which equates tax rates across firms leads to a 13.9% increase in aggregate output.
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Capital Reallocation and Aggregate Productivity
TL;DR: In this paper, the interaction between capital reallocation and business cycles is studied using a simulated method of moments approach, different sources of aggregate fluctuations are studied to assess their ability to match both capital re-allocations and business cycle moments and a model economy driven by exogenous variations in the distribution of reallocations costs does remarkably well in matching these moments.
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Corporate Tax Cuts and the Decline of the Labor Share
Baris Kaymak,Immo Schott +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a strong empirical connection between corporate taxation and the labor's share of income in the manufacturing sector across OECD countries was found, and it was shown that a drop in the corporate tax rate reduces the labor share by shifting the distribution of production towards capital intensive firms.
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Corporate tax cuts and the decline of the manufacturing labor share
Baris Kaymak,Immo Schott +1 more
- 20 Dec 2022
TL;DR: In this article , a strong empirical connection between corporate taxation and the manufacturing labor share was found, with 30 percent to 60 percent of the observed decline in labor shares associated with the fall in corporate taxation.
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