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This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
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Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers’ sickness absences. However, this insurance may create moral hazard problems for firms, leading to the...
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This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If...
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It is common knowledge that mobile individuals are difficult to tax. Governments accommodate these difficulties by … granting special tax reductions to mobile individuals as it is expedient to get some tax revenue from these individuals rather … than to lose them as tax payers completely. Taxing according to expediency is, however, criticized by ordinary tax payers …
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economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … counterproductive. In particular, we identify a number of situations in which ad-adverse consumers are negatively affected by the tax …, and we even show that the tax may lead to higher ad volumes. This unorthodox reaction to a tax may arise when consumers …
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concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through … fraction of the fat tax proceeds is “earmarked” to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a … welfare, anticipating the induced political equilibrium. We show that the fat tax in the political equilibrium is always lower …
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There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes …
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are Stackelberg leaders the principal message is that the choice of caps or taxes matters. International trade and tax … more likely, the less severe the climate damage. Hence, cap regulation is inferior to tax regulation insofar as in case of …
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The administration of tax policy has shifted its focus from enforcement to complementary instruments aimed at creating … a social norm of tax compliance. In this paper we provide an analysis of the effects of the dissemination of information … regarding the past degree of tax evasion at the social level on the current individual tax compliance behavior. We build an …
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Private independent limited partnership venture capital funds receive capital from institutional investors, without tax … Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporations (LSVCCs) receive capital only from individual investors who receive tax breaks … governance and tax incentives: (1) on the distribution of venture capital funding between private and LSVCC funds; (2) on the …
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