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Brazilian population and the social security system : reform alternatives
Beltrão, Kaizô Iwakami; Pinheiro, Sonoê Sugahara - 2015
This study analyses the situation of the Brazilian population vis-à-vis the Social Security System (SSS) using data from PNAD. We chose the 1982, 1992 and 2002 PNAD data to give a series of pictures of the Brazilian population at equal intervals but under different legal instances with respect...
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ZEW-EviSTA : a microsimulation model of the German tax and transfer system
Buhlmann, Florian; Hebsaker, Michael; Kreuz, Tobias; … - 2022 - First version: June 2022
This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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Steuerkomplexität und Arbeitsangebot : eine experimentelle Analyse
Sielaff, Christian - 2011
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den Einfluss von komplexen Steuertarifsystemen auf die Arbeits-Freizeit-Entscheidung von Individuen. Dazu wird ein wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Experiment mit 96 studentischen Teilnehmern durchgeführt. Es wird eine realitätsnahe Arbeits-Freizeit-Entscheidung...
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...
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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? : evidence from Finland's tax day
Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023
This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229860
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What drives remittances during a global shock? : evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico
Ambrosius, Christian; Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; … - 2021
data at the subnational level in Mexico to study the behavior of remittances during the Covid-19 pandemic. We estimate … results show that destination country conditions have been the main driver of remittances to Mexico, whereas origin country … conditions had no discernible effect on remittances during the pandemic. We also show that contractions in consumption in Mexico …
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Pragmatic policy in Brazil : the political economy of incomplete market reform
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis; Schneider, … - 2015
The last 20 years were a period of major political, economic, social, and institutional reform in Brazil. In the first half of the 1990s, reformers opened the economy to foreign trade and both direct and portfolio investment, sold off a number of large and traditional state-owned enterprises,...
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Estimating potential output : a survey of the alternative methods and their applications to Brazil
Barbosa Filho, Nelson Henrique - 2015
This paper presents the main issues involved in estimating potential output. The objective is to describe the alternative methods and analyze their application and implications for growth forecasts and macroeconomic policy in Brazil. The text emphasizes the determinants of potential output under...
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Selfish and Prospective. Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting
Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
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Welfare policy in the presence of unionised labour and internationally mobile firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - 2009
In oligopolistic industries that are unionised and may be affected by offshoring, falling offshoring costs have a moderating effect on trade unions. They will accept lower sector wages in order to discourage mobile forms from leaving the country. Since such wages are independent of the workers'...
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