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Optimal taxation of human capital and the earnings function
Jacobs, Bas; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2008
This paper explores how the specification of the earnings function impacts the optimal tax treatment of human capital. If education is complementary to labor effort, education should be subsidized to offset tax distortions on labor supply. However, if most of the education is enjoyed by high...
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Playing Easy or Playing Hard to Get : When and How to Attract FDI
Gresik, Thomas A. - 2020
We study the link between a country's institutional quality in tax collection and its optimal corporate tax policies in a model of heterogeneous multinationals that can shift income using both debt and transfer prices. Countries with weak institutional quality can be made worse off adopting...
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Information Frictions, Investment Promotion, and Multinational Production : Firm-Level Evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Artiñano, Ignacio Marra; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Solar Rebound - The Unintended Consequences of Subsidies
Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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Optimal Energy Taxes and Subsidies under a Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy : Addressing Carbon Leakage
Kruse-Andersen, Peter - 2019
domestic and foreign production of other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based on an intuitive principle: Impose a …. Producers of renewables-based electricity should receive a subsidy to internalize their contribution to the reduction of global …
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Efficiency in Wholesale Electricity Markets : On the Role of Externalities and Subsidies
Bialek, Sylwia; Unel, Burcin - 2021
-best outcomes. We also show there exists a range of subsidy rates that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are …
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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects : The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
I test whether economic incentives dampen peer effects in public-good settings. I study how a visible and subsidized contribution to a public good (installing solar panels) affects peer contributions that are neither subsidized nor visible (electing green power). Exploiting spatial variation in...
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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor’s degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …
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