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There exists a wide variety of tax treatments of pensions across the world. And the reasons for such a range of regimes …
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This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...
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concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through ….A fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a … welfare, anticipating the induced political equilibrium. We show that the fat tax in the political equilibrium is always lower …
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Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …
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We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … allocated the revenue generated by its own alumni. In addition, we demonstrate how a budget-balancing graduate tax would …
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We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 OECD countries over 1980-2004, we estimate a panel VectorAutoRegressive model. We check whether causalities from labour market variables to unemployment are affected by...
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experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a …
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We develop a new approach to quantify how patients respond to dynamic incentives in health insurance contracts with a deductible. Our approach exploits two sources of variation in a differences-in-regression-discontinuities design: deductible contracts reset at the beginning of the year, and...
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In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...
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We devise an experiment to explore the effect of different degrees of competition on optimal contracts in a hidden-information context. In our benchmark case, each principal is matched with one agent of unknown type. In our second treatment, a principal can select one of three agents, while in a...
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