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Stratification and Public Utility Services in Colombia: Subsidies to Households or Distortions on Housing Prices?
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo - Banco de la Republica de Colombia
Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesis that the flow of subsidies that...
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Demanda por Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios en Colombia y Subsidios: Implicaciones sobre el Bienestar
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo Fabio - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2007
En el presente trabajo se estiman funciones de demanda por los servicios públicos domiciliarios de agua y electricidad para una muestra de las ciudades más importantes en el país. Teniendo como fuente de información la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2003 se utiliza una metodología no lineal...
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Demanda por Servicios Públicos Domiciliarios en Colombia y Subsidios: Implicaciones sobre el Bienestar
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo Fabio - Banco de la Republica de Colombia
En el presente trabajo se estiman funciones de demanda por los servicios públicos domiciliarios de agua y electricidad para una muestra de las ciudades más importantes en el país. Teniendo como fuente de información la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2003 se utiliza una metodología no lineal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005274369
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Labor Market Institutions and the Incidence of Payroll Taxation
Kim, Jinyoung; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2021
Despite unambiguous predictions of the canonical model of a competitive labor market, empirical studies on the labor market effects of payroll taxation provide conflicting evidence. Our meta-analysis shows that varying degrees of labor market competitiveness across places and time could be one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597467
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Labor market institutions and the incidence of payroll taxation
Kim, Jinyoung; Kim, Seonghoon; Koh, Kanghyock - 2021
Despite unambiguous predictions of the canonical model of a competitive labor market, empirical studies on the labor market effects of payroll taxation provide conflicting evidence. Our meta-analysis shows that varying degrees of labor market competitiveness across places and time could be one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517601
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Subsidies to Electricity Consumption and Housing Demand in Bogotá
Casas, Camila - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
In this paper, I estimate the demand for housing in Bogotá, modeling electricity consumption explicitly to take into account the crossed subsidies included in Colombian utility rates. I use household level data on housing prices, observable dwelling attributes, and demographic variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010946006
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Taxation in developing countries: Case study of Cameroon
Fambon, Samuel - 2006
In the beginning of the 1980s, Cameroon witnessed a sustained rate of growth, associated essentially with the boom in the oil sector. Increased budgetary and extra-budgetary resources generated by this sector helped to raise the investment rate in the economy, and to maintain a reasonable level...
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Tax–Benefit Incidence. The Mexican experience during the last twenty years
Vargas-Téllez, César Octavio - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
This paper presents a tax-benefit incidence analysis for a large time period. The objective is to know if has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479576
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The incidence of Payroll Taxes in Ontario and Quebec; Evidence from collective agreements for 1985-2007
César, Edison Roy; Vaillancourt, François - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010
incidence of an increase in payroll tax. The results of this model show that that after one year, a one percentage point …
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Teaching Note: Let's Stop Professing That the Legal Incidence of the Social Security Tax Is Irrelevant
McClure, James E.; Cott, T. Norman Van - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 4, pp. 483-486
The U.S. Social Security levy is widely used by economists to illustrate the irrelevance of legal tax incidence for … economic incidence. However, the levy's magnitude in conjunction with an asymmetry in the U.S. federal income tax code make the … levy's legal incidence highly relevant for its economic incidence. The legal incidence of the social security levy is …
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