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Income inequality in OECD countries : data and explanations
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2003
There is much disagreement about both the facts and the explanations of income inequality. Even if we confine attention to OECD countries, we find people arguing that there has been a great U-turn, with inequality rising sharply after its post war fall, and others who believe that the speed of...
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Do social policies harm employment and growth?
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735970
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Environmental, redistributive and revenue effects of policies promoting fuel efficient and electric vehicles
Bigler, Patrick; Radulescu, Doina - 2022
We analyze welfare implications of policies promoting environmentally friendly vehicles employing rich Swiss micro … instruments have redistributive implications. We compute optimal subsidy - fuel tax combinations subject to a pre-specified EV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167161
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Efficiency in wholesale electricity markets : on the role of externalities and subsidies
Bialek, Sylwia; Unel, Burcin - 2020
and social welfare. We use an analytical model to assess the conditions under which such subsidies increase efficiency of … first-best outcomes when there are resources with heterogeneous emission intensities, there exists a range of subsidy rates … that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are taken into account. We also derive the conditions under …
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Outsourcing, public input provision and policy cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - 2009
cooperation with respect to public input provision can be designed to increase the overall social welfare. -- outsourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923255
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Excludable and non-excludable public inputs : consequences for economic growth
Ott, Ingrid (contributor); Turnovsky, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005
Many public goods are characterized by rivalry and/or excludability. This paper introduces both non-excludable and excludable public inputs into a simple endogenous growth model. We derive the equilibrium growth rate and design the optimal tax and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the...
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Welfare effects of migration in societies with indirect taxes, income transfers and public good provision
Michael, Michael S.; Hatzipanayotou, Panos - 2000
revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it … migration has an ambiguous impact on social welfare in either country. When tariff revenue in either country is either equally … effect on social welfare in the host country, and is expected to reduce social welfare in the source. …
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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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Child care subsidies, quality, and optimal income taxation
Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Nils Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2017 - First version: April, 2012
In this paper we examine the desirability of subsidizing child care expenditures in a model where parents can choose both the quantity and the quality of child care services they purchase in the market. Our vehicle of analysis is a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where child care services not...
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