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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
Goerke, Laszlo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to … compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the em-ployment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …
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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael; Munch, Jakob Roland - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …
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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...
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How Do Stamp Duties Affect the Housing Market?
Davidoff, Ian; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Land transfer taxes are a substantial portion of the cost of moving house in many developed countries. Since stamp duties are endogenous with respect to the house price, we create an instrumental variable that is the stamp duty on a property, given that postcode's starting house price and the...
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Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
Rozema, Kyle; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that increases in cigarette taxes can induce food stamp take-up of non-enrolled, eligible smoking...
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Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game
Bjedov, Tjaša; Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...
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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Ehrenberg, Randy A.; Smith, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual school districts in the state. We find that changes in state aid have little impact on budget vote success....
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Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...
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