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Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...

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The decline of professional football in Italy

Boeri, Tito; Severgnini, Battista - 2012

There are three main critical areas in the Italian football industry. First, we find that the revenues of teams playing in Serie A are low and highly concentrated on TV rights, hence vulnerable to changing conditions in the mass media industry. Second, we document that there has been an...

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When the early bird catches the worm : the impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Vacancies, employment outcomes and firm growth: evidence from Denmark

Bagger, Jesper; Fontaine, François; Galenianos, Manolēs; … - 2021

We use comprehensive data from Denmark that combine online job advertisements with a matched employer-employee dataset and a firm-level dataset with information on revenues and value added to study the relationship between vacancy-posting and various firm outcomes. Posting a vacancy is...

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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2022

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cashflow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...

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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries

Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Relational contracts, taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009

utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …-household welfare distribution. -- Relational contracts ; households ; allocations ; taxation ; welfare distribution …

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Does formality improve micro-firm performance? : quasi-experimental evidence from the Brazilian SIMPLES program

Fajnzylber, Pablo; Maloney, William F.; Montes-Rojas, … - 2009

This paper employs regression discontinuity methods to identify the effect of formality on Brazilian micro-firm performance. The SIMPLES program introduced in November 1996 consolidated multiple taxes and social security contributions into a single payment and reduced taxes for eligible small...

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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods

Lévy-Garboua, Louis (contributor); … - 2007

introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst … system since free-riding restrains the provision of the good. -- Collective goods ; taxation ; rationing ; responsibility …

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Demographic divide and labor migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011

This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...

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