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Green Commuting and Gasoline Taxes in the United States
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2019
This paper analyzes how gasoline tax rates are related to the time workers in the United States spend commuting by …-state differences and time variations in gasoline taxes. Using the American Time Use Surveys for the years 2003 to 2015, we find that … higher gasoline tax rates are related with less time spent in commuting. Furthermore, higher gasoline taxes are related to a …
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys : Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2016
household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; Nogueira, José Ricardo; … - 2006
The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin America averages. However, while tax-benefit systems in most OECD countries reduce income...
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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017
This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens - 2013
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...
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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
Haan, Peter - 2009
We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in preferences. Additionally, the model accounts for the effect of the tax and transfer system on work...
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?
Fuest, Clemens - 2016
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
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The Impact of Income Taxation on the Ratio Between Reservation and Market Wages and the Incentives for Labour Supply
Caliendo, Marco; Gambaro, Ludovica; Haan, Peter - 2021
income taxation on the ratio between reservation and net market wages. Based on micro data for Germany (SOEP) we show that … joint income taxation in Germany which discriminates by marital status, has a strong and highly significant impact on the …
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Cumulation of Cross-Section Surveys : Evaluation of Alternative Concepts for the Cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 Until 2003 Compared to the Sample Survey o...
Merz, Joachim - 2010
With the development of household budget systems and with regard to the requirements of the European Union with new EU … particular the reconstruction of household budget surveys should deliver yearly results as well multi-annual sufficient large … sectional cumulation of five yearly Continuous Household Budget Surveys (Laufende Wirtschaftsrechnungen, LWR) which will be …
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