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Estate Taxes and Charitable Bequests: Evidence from Two Tax Regimes

Joulfaian, David - EconWPA - 2005

Much of the literature on the effects of estate taxation on charitable bequests has relied on cross sectional data, reflecting the uniqueness of death. Few have explored longitudinal data to exploit exogenous variations in tax regimes. The latter, however, continue to be susceptible to omitted...

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Should Public Capital Be Subsidized or Provided?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Xie, Danyang; Zou, Heng-Fu - EconWPA - 2002

In an endogenous-growth model, we consider alternative ways of providing public capital using distortionary taxes. We …

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF AVERAGE AND MARGINAL EFFECTIVE TAX RATES IN EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES.

Immervoll, Herwig - EconWPA - 2003

. Using different definitions of ‘net taxes’, the tax base and the unit of analysis I present a range of measures showing the …

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Do Parents Help More their Less Well-Off Children? Evidence from a Sample of Migrants to France

Wolff, Francois-Charles; Spilerman, Seymour; … - EconWPA - 2005

Through an investigation of parental motives, this paper examines how parents decide on the allocation of their resources within the family when there are several offspring. From a theoretical viewpoint, inter vivos transfers may be explained either by altruism or by an exchange motive. Though...

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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples

Eissa, Nada; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - EconWPA - 2000

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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

focus on the influence exerted in Poland by standard labor market institutions, like social security system, taxes, minumum …

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The Case for Fiscal Policy

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

This paper reconsiders the case for the use of fiscal policy based on a "functional finance" approach that advocates the use of fiscal policy to secure high levels of demand in the context of private aggregate demand, which would otherwise be too low. This "functional finance" view means that...

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Reinventing Fiscal Policy

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

Recent developments in macroeconomic policy, in terms of both theory and practice, have elevated monetary policy while downgrading fiscal policy. Monetary policy has focused on the setting of interest rates as the key policy instrument, along with the adoption of inflation targets and the use of...

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A numerical approach to fiscal policy, unemployment, and growth in Europe

Daveri, Francesco; Maffezzoli, Marco - EconWPA - 2000

taxes when financed either raising capital taxation or reducing unemployment subsidies. We find two main results: (i) with … lump-sum transfers, reducing labor taxes and unemployment subsidies is beneficial to both employment and growth, while … cutting capital taxes is less beneficial; (ii) without transfers, cutting labor taxes is more effective when financed by a …

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