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When face masks signal social identity: explaining the deep face-mask divide during the COVID-19 pandemic
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes Eko; Wong, … - 2021
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging and the vaccination program still rolling out, there continues to be an immediate need for public health officials to better understand the mechanisms behind the deep and perpetual divide over face masks in America. Using a random sample of Americans...
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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014
attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the normative and the comparative view. The first can be thought of as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350420
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Modelling the impact of direct and indirect taxes using complementary datasets
Savage, Michael; Callan, Tim - 2015
Comprehensive modelling of the impact of taxes and tax policy options requires data on the impact at micro-level of both direct and indirect taxes. There are, however, limits on the amount of data that can be gathered by any one survey. With some exceptions, most notably the Living Costs and...
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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land
Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical … division of land led to a more equal distribution of land; other potential drivers of growth are smooth at the boundary and … right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution. Higher top incomes and top wealth in equal division areas coincide …
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On the measurement of long-run income inequality : empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2017
In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes and social support. This paper presents a new methodology...
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Aggregate shocks or aggregate information? : Costly information and business cycle comovement
Veldkamp, Laura (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
has examined complementarities in production, we propose that sectors make similar input decisions because of … complementarities in information acquisition. Because information about driving forces has a high fixed cost of production and a low … correlated production choices. This mechanism amplifies the effects of common shocks, relative to sectoral shocks. …
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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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Migration on the rise, a paradigm in decline : the last half-century of global mobility
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : an analysis by gender
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019
attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well …
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The causal effects of enclosures on production and productivity
Lazuka, Volha; Bengtsson, Tommy; Svensson, Patrick - 2023
enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non-experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure … productivity in the first decade and overall production increase reached 82 percent after 30 years. Such results are much larger …
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