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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Frías, Judith A; Kumler, Todd; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
incentives and information to improve the accuracy of employer reports can be an effective way to improve payroll-tax compliance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083313
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Disability Testing and Retirement
Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie; Pestieau, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper studies the design of retirement and disability policies. It illustrates the often observed exit from the … social welfare. Benefits depend on retirement age and on the (reported) health status. We determine first- and second …-best optimal benefit levels and retirement ages and focus on the distortions which may be induced in the individuals’ retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123923
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Wage and Pension Pressure on the Polish Budget
Crombrugghe, Alain L de - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper studies the role of wage and pension pressures in explaining the budget deficit crisis of 1991–2 after the remarkable 1990 Polish economic stabilization and liberalization. It also explains the persistence of the high tax wedge that later helped overcome the budget crisis. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136543
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Micro-Modelling of Retirement in Belgium
Dellis, Arnaud; Jousten, Alain; Perelman, Sergio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
The present Paper studies the retirement incentives for elderly people in Belgium. We model the incentive structure … built into the various public early retirement and retirement systems. First, we compute indicators of benefit entitlement … as of the implicit tax rates the elderly workers face in case of delayed retirement. We find strong evidence of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792016
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Labour Force transitions of Older Married Couples in Germany
Blau, David; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
spouse is not employed. Observed covariates, including wages and retirement benefits, help to explain these patterns, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656456
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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Campos, Nauro F; Giovannoni, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries and corruption with the preferred one in developing countries. This paper challenges these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136644
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Measuring the Shadow Economy: Endogenous Switching Regression with Unobserved Separation
Filer, Randall K; Hanousek, Jan; Lichard, Tomáš - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We develop an estimator of unreported income that relies on much more flexible identifying assumptions than those underlying previous estimators of the shadow economy using household-level data. Assuming only that evading households have a higher consumption-income gap than non-evaders in...
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Why do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Our survey of private manufacturing firms finds the size of hidden "unofficial" activity to be much larger in Russia and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792051
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Lobbying, Corruption and Political Influence
Campos, Nauro F; Giovannoni, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Conventional wisdom suggests that lobbying is the preferred mean for exerting political influence in rich countries and corruption the preferred one in poor countries. Analyses of their joint effects are understandably rare. This paper provides a theoretical framework that focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792187
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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F; Horváth, Roman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
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