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Taxation of Insurance
Christiansen, Vidar - 2018
Should we exempt the services of insurance companies from VAT? Addressing this issue, the paper distinguishes between … insurance against a general loss of resources and a loss of a specific commodity (property insurance). There is a case for … exempting the former kind of insurance, but not the latter. Finally, comparing insurance through a producer warranty with …
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010
collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment- An International Comparison
Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
tax burden on labour income and a more generous unemployment insurance system increase, whereas a higher centralization of …
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'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital : Evidence from European Migrants
Costa-Font, Joan - 2017
We examine the persistence of the association between subjective health assessments of both first and second-generation migrants with that of their country of origin. To mitigate potential selection bias, we use European data containing records from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of...
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The Importance of School Systems : Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – socio-economic background, cultural factors, and the like? Or do school systems make a difference? This...
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Robust Determinants of the Shadow Economy : An International Comparison
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2016
To synthesize the literature on determinants of the shadow economy, this paper uses three cross-national shadow economy measures and employs numerous determinants over hundreds of model combinations to identify robust determinants of the shadow economy and address modeling uncertainty. We find...
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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-in-Differences Evidence Across Countries
Ruhose, Jens; Schwerdt, Guido - 2021
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy that exploits international variation in the age of tracking as well as student...
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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2021
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...
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When the State Mirrors the Family : The Design of Pension Systems
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola - 2021
This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of the within family organization on the original design of the public pension systems. We build a simple OLG model with families featuring either weak or strong internal ties....
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