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In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … demand. The presence of a cost of firing or hiring as in Bagliano & Bertola (2004) generates an intertemporal element to a …
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In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i … limit of earnings. In short, our simulation results show that the complementarity effect has a particularly strong positive …
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, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We …
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Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...
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We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
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The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
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This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal child care …
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-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that … the demand for life insurance reacted strongly to this change. With regard to bequest motives, we analyze the demand for … viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations which …
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This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...
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the viewers' equilibrium demand for high quality content. We find that, although consumers dislike advertisements, an …
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