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Tax reform in open economies : international and country perspectives
Claus, Iris (contributor) - 2010
The eminent contributors (including Altshuler, Creedy, Freebairn, Gravelle, Heady, Kalb, Sørensen and Zodrow) investigate the beneficial directions for medium-term tax reform in the light of global developments and lessons from the latest taxation research. In addressing this issue, they review...
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Trade, jobs and wages
Hoon, Hian Teck - 2000
of free trade on the rate of unemployment, since it assumes full employment at the outset. By focusing on the …The world's increasing integration through trade and the persistence of high unemployment in Europe, and other areas of … the world, highlight the need to understand the implications of free trade for unemployment. Trade, Jobs and Wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851537
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The evaluation of active labour market policies : measures, public private partnerships and benchmarking
Koning, Jaap de (contributor) - 2007
This book argues that active labour market policies are necessary to improve the position of the unemployed but have so far performed relatively poorly. The contributing authors seek ways to improve active labour market policy and consider three means of doing so: improving the quality by better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420053
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Labour market adjustments in Europe
Messina, Julián (contributor) - 2006
employment protection legislation, which discourages firms from firing old workers and also from hiring new ones. The structure …, social transfer programmes and the retirement decision in OECD countries / Romain Duval -- 4. The effects of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851776
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Patents and the measurement of international competitiveness : new data on the use of patents by universities, small firms, and individual inventors
Kingston, William - 2006
This highly original book represents a major advance in the use of patents to compare countries' technological competitiveness. It tabulates and analyses 280,000 United States patents from countries across the world over a ten year period. Specifically, these patents were granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851655
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The economics of the family and family policy
Cabrillo, Francisco - 1999
, the demand for children, inter-generational relationships, and the economics of inheritance. The family is analysed using …1. Economists and the family -- 2. The family as an economic unit -- 3. Marriage(I) -- 4. Marriage (II) -- 5. Children …
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Tax policy and uncertainty : modelling debt projections and fiscal sustainability
Ball, Christopher; Creedy, John; Scobie, Grant McDonald - 2020
"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416712
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Economic behaviour and taxation
Alm, James (contributor);  … - 2016
Recommended readings (Machine generated): Richard Blundell, Alan Duncan and Costas Meghir (1998), 'Estimating Labor Supply Responses using Tax Reforms', Econometrica, 66 (4), July, 827-61 -- Sören Blomquist and Whitney Newey (2002), 'Nonparametric Estimation with Nonlinear Budget Sets',...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419868
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Reforming intergovernmental fiscal relations and the rebuilding of Indonesia : the 'big bang' program and its economic consequences
Alm, James (contributor);  … - 2004
Indonesia is currently facing some severe challenges, both in political affairs and in economic management. One of these challenges is the recently enacted decentralization program, now well underway, which promises to have some wide-ranging consequences. This edited volume presents original...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850994
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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets
Palda, K. Filip - 2001
Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851115