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Incidence of a "Social VAT" Reform: A French Scenario

Rebiere, Therese - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper studies the fiscal incidence of a fiscal reform consisting of a reduction in employers' social insurance contributions financed by a tax based on the value added. In a closed economy with two sectors calibrated thanks to the French National Accounts, a "social VAT" leads to a rise in...

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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct...

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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of the economy: medium and large-scale firms v. small firms...

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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...

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Who Remits? The Case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I estimate a heteroskedastic Tobit with a known form of variance to estimate the correlation of the remitting decisions of migrants. Working, residing in a developed country and...

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Why Remit? The Case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In the last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries remittances constitute a large portion of their GDP and sometimes exceed FDI. While FDIs are usually profit driven, it is not clear what the driving force behind remittances is....

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The Distribution of Income in Central America

Gindling, T. H.; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …

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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions: Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income children's weight outcomes in the fall and spring of kindergarten. The goals … subsidy receipt has heterogeneous effects on children's weight at different points in the BMI distribution. Results suggest … that subsidy receipt is associated with increases in BMI and a greater likelihood of being overweight and obese. We also …

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