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Ethnic Parity in Labour Market Outcomes for Benefit Claimants

Crawford, Claire; Dearden, Lorraine; Mesnard, Alice; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We … by matching. In many cases, it turns out not to be possible to calculate satisfactory quantitative estimates even with … matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …

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Do Agglomeration Economies Reduce the Sensitivity of Firm Location to Tax Differentials?

Brülhart, Marius; Jametti, Mario; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Low corporate taxes can help attract new firms. This is the main mechanism underpinning the standard 'race-to-the-bottom' view of tax competition. A recent theoretical literature has qualified this view by formalizing the argument that agglomeration forces can reduce firms' sensitivity to tax...

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College Diversity and Investment Incentives

Gall, Thomas; Legros, Patrick; Newman, Andrew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the aggregate economic effects of diversity policies such as affirmative action in college admission. If agents are constrained in the side payments they can make, the free market allocation displays excessive segregation relative to the first-best. Affirmative action policies...

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Agglomeration Economies, Taxable Rents, And Government Capture: Evidence From A Place-Based Policy

Brülhart, Marius; Simpson, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm subsidies in economically lagging regions of Great Britain, we test two alternative hypotheses. Economic geography models imply that firms at an industry’s core can sustain higher...

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Progressive Taxes and Firm Births

Bacher, Hans Ulrich; Brülhart, Marius - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Tax reform proposals in the spirit of the 'flat tax' model typically aim to reduce three parameters: the average tax burden, the progressivity of the tax schedule, and the complexity of the tax code. We explore the implications of changes in these three parameters on entrepreneurial activity,...

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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries: An Application to 38 African Countries

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Warlters, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we propose estimates of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) in 38 African countries. We develop a simple general equilibrium mode inspired by the “1-2-3” model of Devarajan et al. (1994) that can handle taxes on the five major tax classes, takes account of the informal...

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Cash Flow Taxes in an Open Economy

Bond, Stephen Roy; Devereux, Michael P. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Academic and policy debates generally consider levying tax on corporate profit on either a residence basis or on a source basis. We explore two alternatives, based on the location of consumption, rather than production – destination-based, as opposed to source-based or residence-based, taxes....

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The Determinants of Success of Special Interests in Redistributive Politics

Dixit, Avinash K; Londregan, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We construct a locational model of majority voting when competing parties offer special favours to interest groups. Each group's membership is heterogeneous in its affinities for the two parties. Individuals face a trade-off between party affinity and their own transfer receipts.The model is...

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Redistribution as a Selection Device

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper studies the role of the wealth distribution for the market selection of entrepreneurs when agents differ in talent. It argues that the redistribution of initial endowments can increase an economy's surplus because more talented individuals get credit for their risky investment...

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Tax reform, delocation and heterogeneous firms

Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are important thus allowing us to study the relocation effects of taxes that vary according to firm size. We show that allowing for heterogeneity permits a given tax scheme to have an...

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