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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy

Faia, Ester - 2010

Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...

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Why Not Fully Spend a Conditional Block Grant?

Faber, Riemer P. - 2012

This paper studies a conditional block grant that Dutch municipalities receive for welfare-to-work programs. Many municipalities do not fully use this grant, although programs are beneficial for them. We argue that municipalities incur expenses to use the grant. If these costs are substantial,...

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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking among Sexual Minority Adults

Carpenter, Christopher - 2020

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform

Duncan, Denvil - 2009

We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...

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Individual Responsibility and the Funding of Collective Goods

Lévy-Garboua, Louis - 2007

introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …

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The Vanishing Bequest Tax:The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxationin Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

hand, were among the first to be introduced when modernsystems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth …

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An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries

Immervoll, Herwig - 2009

current tax-transfer systems, and study the welfare effects of small reforms that change the relative taxation of spouses. By …

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The Vanishing Bequest Tax : The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007

hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth … determination of the dynamic political equilibrium of the model. Its effect is to compress bequest taxation but also to delay its … the long-term evolution of bequest taxation in modern democracies and with the drastic discrepancies currently observed …

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Welfare : Savings Not Taxation

Douglas, Roger - 2017

Many nations are seeking to reform their welfare states so that costs to the government can be reduced and the quality of outcomes improved. As a potential way to achieve these aims, there has been a surge of interest in the Singaporean model which features compulsory savings accounts and...

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Welfare Reform in European Countries : A Microsimulation Analysis

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2021

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform...

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