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CO2 emissions and GDP : evidence from China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Claudio-Quiroga, Gloria; … - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119768
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Does public employment affect household saving rates? : evidence from Chinese household data
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187718
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Young and old competing for public welfare services
Borge, Lars-Erik (contributor); Rattsø, Jørn (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641686
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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010
We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 in an attempt to understand better the extent to which the growth differential between the two countries can be traced to increased efficiency in the use of capital and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697476
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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928775
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Measuring effective tax rates on human capital : methodology and an application to Canada
Collins, Kirk A.; Davies, James B. - 2003
This paper examines the impacts of a wide range of tax provisions on the incentive to invest in human capital, and shows how these effects can be quantified using effective tax rates, or ETRs. For individuals with median earnings, ETRs on the human capital formed in first-degree university study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507987
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Individual investments in education and health : policy responses and interactions
Carbone, Jared C.; Kverndokk, Snorre - 2016
Empirical studies show that years of schooling are positively correlated with good health. The implication may go from education to health, from health to education, or from factors that influence both variables. We formalize a model that determines an individual's demand for knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554425
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The returns to elite college education : a quasi-experimental analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : evidence from 11 European countries
Brunello, Giorgio - 2002
In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408779
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Threshold effects and regional economic growth e Evidence from West Germany
Funke, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002
We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal...
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