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Empirical Investigation of Autonomy and Motivation

Petrova, Kameliia - EconWPA - 2005

I study the effect of workers' motivation on the firm's choice of how much autonomy employees should be given. The main hypothesis of the paper is that employers give autonomy to workers who are already especially motivated. The empirical work is based on data from Wave 1 of the Health and...

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Coasean economics and the evolution of marine property in Hawaii

kaiser, brooks; roumasset, james - EconWPA - 2004

The standard view that the absence of property rights is inefficient contradicts the Coasean proposition that the relative efficiency of different institutions depends on their ability to economize on transaction costs. Moreover, the comparative theory of open access and private property...

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From Decentralisation of Planning to People's Planning: Experiences of the Indian States of West Bengal and Kerala

Charvak - EconWPA - 2005

From Decentralisation of Planning to Peoples Planning - Experiences of the Indian States of Kerala and West Bengal by Charvak, 2000: The Discussion Paper attempts a comparison of the process of decentralisation of planning in the two States that have made significant progress in this area. The...

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Centralization and Decentralization of Public Policy in a Complex Framework

Alfano, Maria Rosaria - EconWPA - 2005

usefulness of new optimizing procedures for the governance of decentralization. The first section of the paper explores both … positive and normative issues related to centralization and decentralization in a globalized framework as well as the … conflicting centralization and decentralization processes. Finally, this paper concludes with an exploration of how a form of in …

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Tax system and reforms in Europe: Spain

Tondani, Davide - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at discussing the main features of Spain’s tax system, its recent reforms and those underway. The current state of the main taxes, their future reforms are studied starting from 1975, when Spain shifted to democracy. Direct taxes, indirect taxes and social security...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990's

Klevmarken, N. Anders - EconWPA - 2003

Influenced by major tax reform in the early 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of that decade, overall wealth in Swedish households increased. So did wealth inequality. The large baby- boom cohorts of the 1940s have been successful in accumulating wealth and they...

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The Tax Base in Transition: The Case of Bulgaria, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series No. 1267 (March 1994), The World Bank.

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005

Meeting government revenue needs without inhibiting private sector development is a key challenge of tax policy during the transition from the socialist system. The paper explores issues in the design of tax bases and tax structures in the transition and argues that transition economies would...

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A Two-Dimensional Criterion for Tax Policy Evaluation. A Primer from the Reform of Personal Income Taxation in Russia.

Nekipelov, Denis - EconWPA - 2004

The comparison of different tax schedules is a problem of high dimensionality. In the current paper it is proved that under very general assumptions a utilitarian welfare function and an inequality index compose a sufficient statistic for the after-tax welfare distribution, reducing...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - EconWPA - 2004

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On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2002

The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...

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