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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia : the role of spousal participation
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2013
2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision … of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the … decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing …
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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Corporate and personal income tax declarations
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2006
in this paper shows that a manager's decision on the firm's behaviour will be independent of his personal preferences if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355568
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Tax compliance and information provision : a field experiment with small firms
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Schmitz, Jan - 2015
We study a field experiment on tax compliance in Slovenia. Small accounting companies were randomly assigned to an untreated control group and two treatment groups. Companies in the first treatment group received a letter that highlighted the importance of paying taxes and informed about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513276
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Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of evasion" damages state authority. Many evade tax payments, limiting the state's economic development...
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
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The performance of performance standards
Heckman, James J.; Heinrich, Carolyn J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how performance incentives may distort bureaucratic decisions. We define cream skimming within the model. Two major empirical...
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Education research and administrative data
Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have been inconceivable just a short time ago. As the world has developed this remarkable capacity to...
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Public-private employment choice, wage differentials and gender in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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How do insurers price medical malpractice insurance?
Black, Bernard S.; Traczynski, Jerey; Udalova, Victoria - 2022
We study the factors that predict medical malpractice ("med mal") insurance premia, using national data from Medical Liability Monitor over 1990 to 2017. A number of core findings are not easily explained by standard economic theory. First, we estimate long run elasticities of premia to...
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