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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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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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An evaluation of the employment effects of barriers to outsourcing

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2011

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that many of the important international markets where the US has a comparative advantage feature...

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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?

Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015

We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be …

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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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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are...

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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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Fancy a stay at the "Hotel California"? : foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentives) and an index of hiring and firing costs (proxying exit … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …

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Collective labour supply, taxes, and intrahousehold allocation : an empirical approach

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2015

Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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