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Income Taxes and Women's Economic Dependency: A Comparison of West Germany and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

Swedish wives' market earnings contribute 39% of the net family earnings of couples living together. German wives contribute 12%. This paper employs Swedish and German micro data on earnings and personal characteristics of couples. After tax earnings are simulated, under both the tax system of...

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Fuzzy Transition and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Bulgaria, 1991-4

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper investigates the relationship between firm restructuring and international competition in Bulgaria during …

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Competition Law in Post-Central Planning Bulgaria

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper investigates the activities of the Bulgarian competition office, the Commission for the Protection of Competition, during 1991–5. Descriptive statistics are provided on the industry incidence of investigations, the types of behaviour that were investigated, and the frequency with...

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The Simple Economics of Extortion: Evidence from Trucking in Aceh

Barron, Patrick; Olken, Benjamin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper tests whether the behaviour of corrupt officials is consistent with standard industrial organization theory. We designed a study in which surveyors accompanied truck drivers on 304 trips along their regular routes in two Indonesian provinces, during which we directly observed over...

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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

to taxes. …

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Why Europe has become environmentally cleaner: Decomposing the roles of fiscal, trade and environmental policies

López, Ramón; Palacios, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper systematically examines the role of fiscal policy, trade and energy taxes on environmental quality in Europe … policies and energy taxes are effective in reducing the concentration of certain pollutants through different mechanisms. We … of ozone, perhaps the most difficult to control pollutant. Finally, energy taxes appear to have an important effect in …

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Career Length: Effects of Curvature of Earnings Profiles, Earnings Shocks, and Social Security

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The high labor supply elasticity in an indivisible-labor model with employment lotteries emerges also without lotteries when individuals must instead choose career lengths. The more elastic are earnings to accumulated working time, the longer is a worker's career. Negative (positive)...

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The Political Economy of Redistribution in the U.S. in the Aftermath of World War II and the Delayed Impacts of the Great Depression - Evidence and Theory

Beetsma, Roel; Cukierman, Alex; Giuliodori, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding …

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A Gini Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics during the Transition

Garner, Thesia I; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very little, and by a similar amount, from 1989–93 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This surprising result is examined with an analysis of changes in the channels of...

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Estimating the Effects of Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries

Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This Paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on GDP, inflation and interest rates in five OECD countries, using a structural Vector Autoregression approach. Its main results can be summarized as follows: 1) The effects of fiscal policy on GDP tend to be small: government spending multipliers...

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