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stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
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stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529124
We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To …
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greatly reduces bias in the most influential and precise estimates: conservatively accounting for capital taxes paid by the …
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. First, taxes on formal employment generate a wedge between formal and informal size wage gaps. Thus, government policy can …
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Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing …
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We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of substitution in parental childcare for the whole population and for...
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less likely to comply with civic duties such as voting and paying taxes. Exclusion erodes civic responsibilities. …
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encourage early retirement, they reduce the number of people paying taxes and increase the number of people supplementing their … rights.? The government?s receipts from the pension taxes or the sale of early retirement rights are used, in part, to …
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The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy, individuals make mandatory contributions to accounts, which they can top up with voluntary contributions. In return,...
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