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Universities as Stakeholders in Their Students' Careers : On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
McKenzie, Tom; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010
endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax …
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Tax Incidence in the Presence of Tax Evasion
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2014
This paper studies the effect of tax evasion on the economic incidence of sales taxes. We design a laboratory experiment in which buyers and sellers trade a fictitious good in double auction markets. A per-unit tax is imposed on sellers, and sellers in the treatment group are provided the...
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Work and Tax Evasion Incentive Effects of Social Insurance Programs : Evidence from an Employment-Based Benefit Extension
Bergolo, Marcelo - 2014
This article studies how social insurance programs shape individual's incentives to take up registered employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053521
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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
Haan, Peter - 2009
of the tax and transfer system on work incentives. The structural parameter estimates are used to evaluate the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764073
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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
reservation/market wage ratio. Relative to single filers, this leads to strong negative labour supply incentives for secondary … earners and to positive incentives for first earners in married couples …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317213
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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work so Much More than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice - 2014
Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894547
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees
Chapman, Bruce - 2011
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129089
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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle-school increased in the short term by...
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