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Investment tax credits and the response of firms

Lerche, Adrian - 2022

This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional …

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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020

developing countries see insufficient investment in projects that would reallocate labor towards better jobs. The concept of JLEs … to (a) estimate the value of the externality and (b) discover the amount of subsidy needed to trigger the private … investment. This paper shows that the optimal way to allocate subsidies to offset JLEs is through a competitive bidding process …

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The Child Tax Credit over time by family type : benefit eligibility and poverty

Brehm, Margaret E.; Malkova, Olga - 2023

We examine disparities in Child Tax Credit (CTC) eligibility and anti-poverty effects since 1998 by family type. Initially, single mothers were least likely to be eligible and were underrepresented among those lifted from poverty by the CTC, because the credit was virtually nonrefundable. By...

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Single mothers and the earned income tax credit : insurance without disincentives?

Athreya, Kartik B.; Reilly, Devin; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2014

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the single most important transfer program in place in the United States. An aspect of the EITC that has received little attention thus far is its role as a public insurance program. Yet, the structure of the EITC necessarily protects its primary class of...

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On the heterogeneity in longevity among socioeconomic groups : scope, trends, and implications for earnings‐related pension schemes

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel Ventura; Holzmann, … - 2016

Heterogeneity in longevity between socioeconomic groups is increasingly documented for developed economies and is reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main socioeconomic characteristics - such as age, gender, race, health, education, profession, income, and...

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Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben

Schneider, Hilmar (contributor); Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2005

The paper simulates the labor market impact of a fixed allowance for social insurance contributions. Based on a discrete choice labor supply model estimated on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we evaluate household utility changes triggered by the reform, accounting for behavioral...

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Public funding and corporate innovation

Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017

We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...

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Assessing the fertility effects of childcare cost subsidies : evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit

Averett, Susan; Yang Wang - 2023

We examine the impact of the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit (CDCTC) on fertility and parental investment in … more children or increasing investment in existing ones. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Center …

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Making subsidies work : rules vs. discretion

Cingano, Federico; Palomba, Filippo; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

We estimate the employment effects of a large program of public investment subsidies that ranked applications on a …

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Targeting tax relief at youth employment

Webb, Matthew; Warman, Casey; Sweetman, Arthur - 2016

Canada's Youth Hires program was a targeted employment subsidy that rebated employment insurance premiums to employers …

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