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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 - 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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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
Gong, Xiaodong - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
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Measuring the Impacts of Covid-19 on Job Postings in Australia Using a Reweighting-Estimation-Transformation Approach
Shen, Kailing - 2020
in Australia. Contrary to the commonly used aggregation-based method on counting data, our approach can be used in a … relatively 'thin' market, such as Australia. In a thin market, the number of job postings is relatively small, and the share of … Australia as of July 2020 is slowly recovering from its lowest 45 per cent dip at the beginning of May. Our results also suggest …
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : Evidence from Birth Outcomes of Aboriginal Australians
Doyle, Mary-Alice - 2020
Australia's 'income management' policy requires benefit recipients to spend at least half of their government transfers …
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2018
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management – quarantines 50 percent of welfare payments to be spent on priority goods (e.g., food, housing,...
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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers
Costa-i-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; … - 2022
We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...
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Physical Isolation and Loneliness : Evidence from COVID Lockdowns in Australia
Kong, Nancy; Lam, Jack - 2022
Using mandatory stay-at-home orders in Australia as a natural experiment and data from a long-running panel study, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241706
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Do Gun Buybacks Save Lives? Evidence from Panel Data
Leigh, Andrew - 2010
In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …
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State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty
Baker, Scott R.; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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