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High labor tax wedges and slow formal employment growth have combined to make labor tax reform an important economic … employment package. Using data from firms, households, and social insurance files, the research finds that employment does … registered employment. However, the actual effect of lower taxes on employment would be diluted because a significant portion of …
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employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …
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groups over group-specific targeted benefits financed by generalized taxation. These models predict that governments …-that of populist pressure on political parties to spend more on the general public good, financed by costly income taxation …
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either compensated or uncompensated measures of the marginal cost of funds can be used to evaluate the costs of taxation …
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. However, women with past family migration experience are significantly more likely to engage in self-employment and less …
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"Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to alleviate poverty through monetary and in-kind benefits, as well as reduce future levels of poverty by encouraging investments in education, health, and nutrition. The success of CCT programs at reducing poverty depends on whether, and the extent...
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"The objective of this paper is to present microeconomic evidence on the economic effects of international remittances on households' spending decisions. Remittances can increase the household budget and reduce liquidity constraint problems, allowing more consumption and investment. In...
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