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Taxing the working poor : the political origins and economic consequences of taxing low wages

Kemmerling, Achim - 2009

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market

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Tax and transfer policy using behavioural microsimulation modelling : design and evaluation

Creedy, John; Mok, Penny - 2022

"Combining theoretical and practical aspects of policy analysis, this book evaluates actual and proposed policy reforms to income tax and transfer systems, using a behavioural tax microsimulation model. It highlights how these models allow for the full details of tax systems and the considerable...

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Environmental policy making in economies with prior tax distortions

Goulder, Lawrence H. (ed.) - 2002

In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...

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Greening the budget : budgetary policies for environmental improvement

Clinch, J. Peter (contributor) - 2002

Greening the Budget regards the fundamental cause of environmental degradation as government and market failure and proposes the use of budgets as an instrument of environmental policy to rectify this problem. The book focuses on the elements of the public budget which currently affect the...

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Fiscal policy and social welfare : an analysis of alternative tax and transfer systems

Creedy, John - 1996

In Fiscal Policy and Social Welfare John Creedy examines alternative tax and transfer systems and their redistributive effects. Drawing on original research, this volume concentrates on modelling tax structures and their implications for social welfare and income distribution. After reviewing...

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The dynamics of inequality and poverty : comparing income distributions

Creedy, John - 1998

This important book is concerned with the evaluation of changes in income distribution and the analysis of tax and transfer systems. The book begins with an introduction to the measurement of inequality and poverty, stressing the role of value judgements. The following six chapters deal with...

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The economics of technology and employment : theory and empirical evidence

Vivarelli, Marco - 1995

appraisal of how far current economic analysis and theory can deal with this key policy issue. The Economics of Technology and …

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The overeducated worker? : the economics of skill utilization

Borghans, L. (ed.); Grip, A. de (ed.) - 2000

It is often suggested in policy debates that the employment of highly educated workers in jobs traditionally held by lower skilled workers leads to skill wastage and a worsening labour market position for the less educated. This process is generally referred to as 'bumping down' or 'crowding...

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Economic behaviour and taxation

Alm, James (contributor); … - 2016

-Taking: Theory and Evidence for the U.S.', Journal of Public Economics, 91 (7-8), August, 1479-505 -- Åsa Hansson (2012), 'Tax Policy … Looney and Kory Kroft (2009), 'Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence', American Economic Review, 99 (4), September, 1145 …

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The WTO, subsidies and countervailing measures

Bacchetta, Marc - 2011

the Theory of Optimum Subsidy', Journal of Political Economy, 71 (1), February, 44-50 -- Harry G. Johnson (1965), 'Optimal … Is a Subsidy?', in The American Law Institute Reporters' Studies on WTO Case Law: Legal and Economic Analysis, Chapter 21 …Recommended readings (Machine generated): Bagwell, K. and R.W. Staiger (1999), 'An Economic Theory of GATT', American …

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