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Property value assessment growth limits, tax base erosion and regional in-migration
Skidmore, Mark; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2010
In 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the newly imposed assessment growth cap was an emerging differential in tax prices between potential new property owners and long-time property owners. The purpose of this paper is to...
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The vanishing bequest tax: the comparative evolution of bequest taxation in historical perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007
Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly geographically concentrated. Compared to the native born they are...
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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Ehrenberg, Randy A.; Smith, … - 2004
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual school districts in the state. We find that changes in state aid have little impact on budget vote success....
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Taxing home ownership: Distributional effects of including net imputed rent in taxable income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - 2012
Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current fiscal crisis revived interest towards this form of taxation. The paper investigates the fiscal...
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Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty in Sweden: An innovative analysis of individual neighbourhood histories
van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - 2012
intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing upon the concept of a neighbourhood biography, this study contends that there … are links between the places individuals live in with their parents and their subsequent neighbourhood experiences as … neighbourhoods, this study is the first to use innovative sequencing techniques to construct individual neighbourhood histories …
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Neighborhood effects and individual unemployment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Fertig, Michael; Vorell, Matthias - 2011
federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? The case of the freedom party of Austria
Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012
-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the …
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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents' low employment and to low parental …
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