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with an improvement in offshoring technology, we find that there is a role for a wage tax or a minimum wage in the …
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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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, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on … crude is not available as a policy option, however, a second-best biofuel subsidy (or tax) is optimal. In the large …-country case, the optimal tax on crude departs from its standard Pigouvian level and a biofuel subsidy is optimal. A biofuel …
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The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the newʺ theory of international trade, but it is uncertain …
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This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the goods is a non-traded good. We find that under quasi-linear preferences the effect of the terms of...
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This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using a model-economy comprising two countries, North and South, where firms in the North may outsource part of their low-skilled labor intensive production to the South. We consider...
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the effects of migration on the accumulation of both knowledge and human capital, by invoking endogenous growth theory …
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We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff equilibrium for two potential members of a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA). We analyze...
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relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It compares the economic performance of two alternative tax … systems as a means to finance unemployment benefits: a sales-tax-cum-labor-subsidy system versus a wage tax system. The two … systems are applied to the home country, while the wage tax system always obtains in the foreign country. In stark contrast …
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through a wage tax, so that brain drain affects the tax base and has agglomeration effects. We study unilateral possibilities …
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