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A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies

Commander, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions – often non …

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Taxes and Benefits: Two Distinct Options to Cheat on the State?

Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud, has gained relatively modest attention in the economic literature. This paper seeks to fill this gap. We explore differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to...

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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model

Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...

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Die Beseitigung von Arbeitszeithürden als Beitrag zur Lösung des Fachkräftemangels

Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Die Stellschraube Arbeitszeit ist der in der Fachdebatte am stärksten unterschätzte Ansatzpunkt, um den absehbaren Konsequenzen der demographischen Herausforderungen begegnen zu können. Würden alle Erwerbstätigen im statistischen Durchschnitt Vollzeit arbeiten, was in etwa der heutigen...

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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans; Tabb, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax rates are less distortionary for workers engaged in a contest. To examine this potential...

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UK Households' Carbon Footprint: A Comparison of the Association between Household Characteristics and Emissions from Home Energy, Transport and Other Goods and Services

Buchs, Milena; Schnepf, Sylke V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...

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Does Public Education Expansion Lead to Trickle-Down Growth?

Böhm, Sebastian; Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The paper revisits the debate on trickle-down growth in view of the widely discussed evolution of the earnings and income distribution that followed a massive expansion of higher education. We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model to dynamically evaluate whether economic growth triggered...

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Tax Compliance and Information Provision: A Field Experiment with Small Firms

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Schmitz, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study a field experiment on tax compliance in Slovenia. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and informed about the...

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The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...

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Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...

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