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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts the number of individuals of the same ethnicityand the quality of contacts welfare use among members of the ethnic group. OLS...

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Lifestyle taxes in the presence of profit shifting

Levaggi, Rosella; Marchiori, Carmen; Panteghini, Paolo - 2020

lifestyle taxes may exist. In general, the First Best sin tax cannot be levied if Governments are also interested in corporate … harder to impose significant lifestyle taxes. We also provide some insights about the effects that the international effort … to fight profit shifting may have on lifestyle taxes. …

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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest : the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - 2003

Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was between 3 and 9 cm in the middle of the 19th century....

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(Re-)distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performance across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level...

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Growth and convergence in a two-region model of unified Germany

Funke, Michael; Strulik, Holge - 1999

The paper sets up a two-region endogenous growth model to discuss growth and regional convergence of unified Germany. It emphasises the role of private and public capital accumulati on during the developing process. The theoretical part derives fiscal policy rules which establish convergence of...

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The cost of well-being

Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...

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Biological well-being in late 19th century Philippines

Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Dovis, Marion; Komlos, John - 2015

This paper investigates the biological standard of living toward the end of Spanish rule. We investigate levels, trends, and determinants of physical stature from the birth cohorts of the 1860s to the 1890s using data on 23,000 Filipino soldiers enlisted by the U.S. military between 1901 and...

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The biological standard of living in the two Germanies

Komlos, John; Kriwy, Peter - 2001

Physical stature is used as a proxy for the biological standard of living in the two Germanies before and after unification in an analysis of a cross-sectionalsample (1998) of adult heights, as well as among military recruits of the1990s. West Germans tended to be taller than East Germans...

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Demographic, residential, and socioeconomic effects on the distribution of 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature, and heights are related with vitamin D. Although African-Americans and whites have the genetic ability to reach similar terminal statures, 19th century blacks were consistently shorter...

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Geography, insolation, and institutional change in 19th century African-American and white stature in southern states

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2008

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. While much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century biological conditions were related to the physical environment and...

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