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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

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Why Europe has become environmentally cleaner: Decomposing the roles of fiscal, trade and environmental policies

López, Ramón; Palacios, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper systematically examines the role of fiscal policy, trade and energy taxes on environmental quality in Europe … policies and energy taxes are effective in reducing the concentration of certain pollutants through different mechanisms. We … of ozone, perhaps the most difficult to control pollutant. Finally, energy taxes appear to have an important effect in …

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Career Length: Effects of Curvature of Earnings Profiles, Earnings Shocks, and Social Security

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The high labor supply elasticity in an indivisible-labor model with employment lotteries emerges also without lotteries when individuals must instead choose career lengths. The more elastic are earnings to accumulated working time, the longer is a worker's career. Negative (positive)...

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The Political Economy of Redistribution in the U.S. in the Aftermath of World War II and the Delayed Impacts of the Great Depression - Evidence and Theory

Beetsma, Roel; Cukierman, Alex; Giuliodori, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper presents evidence of an upward ratchet in transfers and taxes in the U.S. around World-War II. This finding …

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The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … reach two important conclusions. First, excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking. Second, smoking bans have …

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Food and the GST.

Quiggin, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1992

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A Gini Decomposition Analysis of Inequality in the Czech and Slovak Republics during the Transition

Garner, Thesia I; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very …

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Estimating the Effects of Fiscal Policy in OECD Countries

Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This Paper studies the effects of fiscal policy on GDP, inflation and interest rates in five OECD countries, using a structural Vector Autoregression approach. Its main results can be summarized as follows: 1) The effects of fiscal policy on GDP tend to be small: government spending multipliers...

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Taxes and Subsidies in the Transforming Hungarian Economy

Revesz, Tamas; Zalai, Erno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

government's budget, especially the roles played by taxes and subsidies. This paper reviews the Hungarian fiscal situation in …

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A Three State Model of Worker Flows in General Equilibrium

Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We develop a simple model featuring search frictions and a nondegenerate labor supply decision along the extensive margin. The model is a standard version of the neoclassical growth model with indivisible labor with idiosyncratic shocks and frictions characterized by employment loss and...

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