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In this paper, we analyze the interaction between corruption, taxation and economic growth. Our contributions are … stronger the negative effects of taxation on the growth (ii) Once the negative effects of corruption are accounted … twofold. Theoretically, in an endogenous growth model, we introduce corruption in two different ways: corruption in the public …
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and identical between countries except for the timing of taxation. Expected taxation rather than current tax levels …
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This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. Differences are driven by the heterogeneity in work preferences across countries and by methodological difference across studies (data, selection or model estimation...
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We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status, with measurement differences netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that...
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introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
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. We analyze the role of public spending, financed by labor income and consumption taxation, on the emergence of …
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that health expenditures have not always to be subsidized. Indeed, the taxation of births plays the role of an indirect …
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introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
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In an overlapping generations economy setup we show that, if individuals can improve their life expectancy by exerting some effort, costly in terms of either resources or utility, the competitive equilibrium steady state differs from the first best steady state. This is due to the fact that...
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This paper presents series on top shares of income in Argentina from 1932 to 2004 based on personal income tax return statistics. Our results suggest that income concentration was higher during the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s than it is today. The recovery of the economy after the...
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