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Is it environmentally desirable to encourage public transport through taxes? Evidence of Sandmo’s hypothesis in Spanish households

Mercedes Burguillo?Cuesta; Desiderio Romero?Jordán; … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2009

Sandmo (2009) suggests that the use of environmental taxes to promote the consumption of “clean goods” could have unwanted effects in that it leads to the consumption of “dirty goods”. This would therefore cast doubt on both the efficiency of environmental policy measures that act...

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The GST and Vertical, Horizontal and Reranking Effects of Indirect Taxation in Australia.

Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

This paper decomposes the redistributive effect of indirect taxation into vertical, horizontal inequity and reranking effects. The latter two effects arise because households with the same total expenditure have different patterns. The pre-and post-GST structures in Australia are examined. The...

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A New Method in Household Demography

Ironmonger, D.S.; Jennings, V.E.; Lloyd-Smith, C.W. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper presents a new approach to the description of household size distributions. It has been found that a Poisson … distribution can be used to approximate the observed household size distribution in terms of a single parameter, namely the average … household size, where empty habitable dwellings are counted as size zero households. The approach adopted in this paper is …

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New Products of the 80s & 90s: the Diffusion of Household Technology in the Decade 1985-1995.

Ironmonger, D.S.; Lloyd-Smith, C.W.; Soupourmas, F. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

introduction of five types of household appliances. …

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Household Production and the Household Economy.

Ironmonger, D. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

Household production is the production of the goods and services by the members of a household, for their own … include accommodation, meals, clean clothes, and child care. The process of household production involves the transformation …

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The Economics of Dowry Payments in Pakistan.

Anderson, S. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999

Although there are numerous studies of the dowry phenonmenon in India, research pertaining to the custom in the rest of South Asia is sparse. The aim of this paper is to study dowry payments in Pakistan. Several interpretations for dowry are distinguished using a simple theoretical framework and...

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The Importance of Ability

Cardak, B.A. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

A model of education where the distribution of innate abilities is the source of heterogeneity is investigated. Public and private education models are investigated and compared. Human capital follows a first order Markov process which is shown to converge to a unique stationary distribution in...

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The Effects of Inflation of Inequality and Social Welfare in Australia : International Comparisons.

van de Ven, J-W - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

When the prices of goods that form a relatively large proportion of the total expenditure of low income households rise in relation to all other goods, the inequality of the real income distribution increases. This paper models the effect on inequality and welfare if, ceteris paribus, Australian...

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Means-Tested Benefits, Incentives and Earnings Distributions.

Creedy, J.; Scutella, R. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

This paper considers the question whether it is possible, using information about only the distribution of earnings, to identify some of the labour supply incentive effects of a tax and transfer system.

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Preferences Over Education Expenditure

Cardak, B.A. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper investigates the effects on income and its distribution of heterogenous preferences for education expenditures. Models of private and public education are studied and compared. Public education expenditures are determined through majority vote. Equilibria for both models are...

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