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Globalization and Developing Countries - A Shrinking Tax Base?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2006
This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift their tax revenue from "easy to collect" taxes...
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Optimal Wage Re-Negotiation
Aizenman, Joshua - 1984
This paper investigates an economy in which there are short-term wage contracts that are re-negotiated under certain conditions. This paper determines the optimal frequency of wage re-negotiation and shows that it depends positively on measures of aggregate variability and Phillips curve slope....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477817
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International Evidence on Vaccines and the Mortality to Infections Ratio
Aizenman, Joshua; Cukierman, Alex; Jinjarak, Yothin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Recent observations on countries like the UK that have accumulated a large fraction of inoculated individuals suggest that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of a given pool of infections. This paper examines the...
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Vocational Education, Manufacturing, and Income Distribution : International Evidence and Case Studies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2017
regular college attainment. Comparing the US to Germany suggests that pushing more students to BA granting colleges may no …
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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or On the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2014
institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …
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