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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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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The existence of multiple steady states is established, including a poverty trap, wherein children work...
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effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting … from a joint to an individual taxation system in France. We show that the net-of-tax relative earning potential of the wife … sensitivity analysis shows that the collective model would be required if the tax reform was both radical and of extended scope. …
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public finance performance of non-citizens was explained by their lifetime low income and low tax payments. …
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found that such tax can raise substantial tax revenue for the SMCs which could be used to enhance human capital in the … ; overlapping generations ; endogenous tax policy ; Mediterranean region …
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women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator … (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of income at the household level to compute the marginal tax rates faced by … each individual. We then use these marginal tax rates to compute net own-wage, spouse-wage, and non-labour income. We show …
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Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …
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We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … allocated the revenue generated by its own alumni. In addition, we demonstrate how a budget-balancing graduate tax would …
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common empirical approach and a complete simulation of tax-benefit policies affecting household budgets. We find that wage … robust to several modeling assumptions. We show that differences in tax-benefit systems or demographic compositions explain …
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the Hausman estimation approach to discrete-choice models with tax-benefit simulations). Meta-analysis evidence suggests …
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