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Learning from the 'Best' : The Impact of Tax-Benefit Systems in Africa
Bargain, Olivier - 2019
Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894556
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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU
Kalíšková, Klára - 2015
This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024907
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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
Depew, Briggs - 2011
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite … inter-war period, we are able to estimate the elasticity of supply to the firm during several recessions and expansions. Our … analysis suggests that the elasticity is indeed lower during recessions, consistent with the comparative statics from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120838
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2012
a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation include the impact of tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099765
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Optimal Minimum Wage
Danziger, Leif - 2006
increased to a level where the labor demand is unitary elastic. Rather, there exists a critical value of elasticity of labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779195
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Sufficient Statistic or Not? The Elasticity of Taxable Income in the Presence of Deduction Possibilities
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2014
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of … 0.49 and an elasticity of deductions with respect to the net-of-tax rate of -2.80. Given that the majority of deductions … in the German income tax system generate externalities, our non-zero deduction elasticity suggests that the ETI is not …
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Estimating Labor-Supply Elasticities with Joint Borrowing Constraints of Couples
Bredemeier, Christian - 2016
Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
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Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision : An Experimental Analysis
Fellner-Röhling, Gerlinde - 2011
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about the heterogeneity to identify the applied contribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128231
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Inequality, Inequity Aversion, and the Provision of Public Goods
Kölle, Felix - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010
fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …
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