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Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štepán; Roesel, Felix - 2021

million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left …-war Czechoslovakia and find a long-lasting footprint: Communist party support, party cell frequencies, far-left values, and social …

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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

reforms on equity and efficiency for thecase of Germany... …

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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy

Terrell, Katherine; Svejnar, Jan; Münich, Daniel - 2000

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it...

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On the Equilibrium and Welfare Consequences of 'Keeping up with the Joneses'

Gavrel, Frédéric; Rebiere, Therese - 2015

This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...

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Why Do South Korean Firms Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Ghanaian Ones?

Baptist, Simon; Teal, Francis J. - 2015

Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...

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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey

Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015

This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …

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Efficiency and Labor Market Dynamics in a Model of Labor Selection

Chugh, Sanjay K.; Merkl, Christian - 2015

This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...

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The Relationship between Health and Schooling: What's New?

Grossman, Michael - 2015

Many studies suggest that years of formal schooling completed is the most important correlate of good health. There is much less consensus as to whether this correlation reflects causality from more schooling to better health. The relationship may be traced in part to reverse causality and may...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2013

and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …

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