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Education policy and equality of opportunity

Schuetz, Gabriela (contributor); … - 2005

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...

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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development

Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

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Determinants of tax rates in local capital income taxation : a theoretical model and evidence from Germany

Büttner, Thiess - 1999

In a theoretical model local jurisdictions provide a public input an d a public consumption good financed by a tax on capital income. When deciding about tax rate and budget structure the jurisdictions will generally respond to each others fiscal choices irrespective of whether the policy is...

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Local business taxation and competition for capital : the choice of the tax rate

Büttner, Thiess - 2001

A theoretical model describes the local choice of the tax rate on capital income. It establishes preferences and various fiscal conditions - including the tax rates of competing jurisdictions - as determinants of the tax rate. The empirical implications are tested using a large panel of...

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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation

Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...

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Heterogeneous workers, trade, and migration

Heiland, Inga; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2018

We develop a model that combines monopolistic competition on goods markets with skill-type heterogeneity on the labor market to analyze the effects of trade and migration on welfare and inequality. Skill-type heterogeneity and partial specificity to firms' endogenously chosen skill requirements...

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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions

Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004

The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...

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Heterogeneous workers, trade, and migration

Heiland, Inga; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2013

We argue that the narrative of variety-induced gains from trade in differentiated goods needs revision. If producing differentiated varieties of a good requires differentiated skills and if the work force is heterogeneous in these skills, then firms are likely to have monopsony power. We show...

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Anti profit-shifting rules and foreign direct investment

Büttner, Thiess; Overesch, Michael; Wamser, Georg - 2014

This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals' tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...

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