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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Bounds of Unfair Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

differences in social mobility and persistence. …

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The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals

Borck, Rainald; Uebelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - CESifo - 2012

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children’s ability. Non-students are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous...

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Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance?

Blanden, Jo; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014

Evidence on intergenerational income mobility in the UK is dated. This paper seeks to update our knowledge by … introducing new estimates of mobility for later measures of earnings in the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Given poor or non …-existent data on more recent cohorts we adopt an indirect approach to assessing more recent mobility trends. This exploits the close …

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Education, Equity and Social Mobility: A Summary of Three Research Papers

Utting, David - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014

2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …

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Education, Equity and Social Mobility: A Summary of Three Research Papers

Utting, David - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2014

2014: - Blanden, J. & Macmillan, L. (2014) Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Help or Hindrance? CASEpaper …

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Income Dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Schluter, Christian - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 1998

substantial movements beneath the surface. The US and the UK underwent a process of income polarisation. For the study of mobility …, stochastic kernels are used, because standard approaches based on mobility indices and transition matrices, which group persons … into income classes of arbitrary size, lead to misleading conclusions. The measures attribute greater mobility to Germany …

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AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ACCOUNTING ENVIRONMENT: A GENERAL OUTLINE OF A WESTERN EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICAN LINKAGE

salvary, stanley c. w. - EconWPA - 2005

It is recognized that the usefulness of accounting infor mation is contingent upon its (1) neutrality, (2) relevancy, and (3) reliability. Given that all socio-economic systems are comprised of participants and institutions, it would seem that the attainment of those three qualities is...

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The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) as an Evolutionary Learning Process

Ania, Ana B.; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2009

We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the...

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