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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?
Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012
We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...
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Fighting poverty : assessing the effect of guaranteed minimum income proposals in Québec
Clavet, Nicholas-James; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lacroix, Guy - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
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The impact of immigrants on public finances : a forecast analysis for Denmark
Hansen, Marianne Frank; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; … - 2015
All over Europe, ageing populations threaten nations' financial sustainability. In this paper we examine the potential of immigration to strengthen financial sustainability. We look at a particularly challenging case, namely that of Denmark, which has extensive tax-financed welfare programmes...
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Eine fiskalische Gesamtbilanz der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland
Bonin, Holger - 2002
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die fiskalischen Gesamtwirkungen der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland mit Hilfe der demographisch basierten langfristigen Budgetmethode der Generationenbilanzierung. Für den Bestand der Einheimischen und Zuwanderer wird der Gegenwartswert der individuell über den...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411849
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Fiscal incidence on the island : Grenada's fiscal system and its incidence
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024
This paper examines the distributional effects of fiscal policy in Grenada. Using data from the 2017-2018 Living Conditions and Household Budgets Survey and following the Commitment to Equity (CEQ) analysis framework, we estimate the effects of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and...
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Trade shocks and the provision of local public goods
Feler, Leo; Senses, Mine Zeynep - 2016
services. Areas in the US with declining labor demand and incomes due to increasing import competition from China experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543193
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The value of sick pay
Adams, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, Christopher - 2021
Not all countries provide universal access to publicly funded paid sick pay. Amongst countries that do, compensation rates can be low and coverage incomplete. This leaves a significant role for employer-provided paid sick pay in many countries. In this paper, we study who has access to...
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When do nations tax? : the adoption of property tax codes by First Nations in Canada
Feir, Donna; Jones, Maggie; Scoones, W. David - 2022
Recent changes in Canadian legislation have enabled First Nations to adopt property taxation and other forms of taxation on reserves, thereby allowing them to directly finance their local governments through local tax revenues. In this paper, we compile data on the passage of First Nations tax...
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The quantity-quality tradeoff of children in a developing country : identification using Chinese twins
Li, Hongbin (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor);  … - 2007
attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries. -- Quantity-quality tradeoff ; twins ; China …
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Regional price differences in urban China 1986 - 2001 : estimation and implication
Honge Gong, Cathy (contributor); Meng, Xin (contributor) - 2008
Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …
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