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Fiscal Incidence when both Individual Welfare and Family Structure Matter: The Case of Subsidization of Home-Care for the Elderly

Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2012

How should we construct incidence indexes for children and parents in the case of public subsidies for home-care of the … the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about …

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Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - CESifo - 2009

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...

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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Lameli, Alfred; Nitsch, Volker; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, … - CESifo - 2013

Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, holding other factors constant. In this paper, we show that this trade-promoting effect of language...

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Foreign Languages and Trade

Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko - CESifo - 2014

Cultural factors and especially common languages are well-known determinants of trade. By contrast, the knowledge of foreign languages was not explored in the literature so far. We combine traditional gravity models with data on fluency in the main languages used in EU and candidate countries....

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Evidence on the Political Principal-Agent Problem from Voting on Public Finance for Concert Halls

Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...

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Culture and Tax Structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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Trade, Trust and Institutions

Yu, Shu; Haan, Jakob de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - CESifo - 2011

To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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Culture and Cooperation

Gaechter, Simon; Herrmann, Benedikt; Thöni, Christian - CESifo - 2010

Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...

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Can Integrity Replace Institutions? Theory and Evidence

Aharonovitz, Gilad D.; Skuza, Nathan; Fahs, Faysal - CESifo - 2009

Institutions are important for proper economic performance, but are replaceable by trust or other social norms. We show that when proper institutions and trust are missing, integrity of the individuals can replace them. We construct a model of a transactions-based economy with contracts...

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