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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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of this paper is to examine educational inequalities among immigrants in eight high immigration countries: Australia …, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
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the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by redistribution, it is however not clear whether redistributional policies are indeed able to combat...
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Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained … comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
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This paper examines the parallel trends in education and labour market developments in Australia and Britain. It uses … Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general patterns of … overskilling (prevalence and penalties) are fairly similar between Australia and Britain, the problem appears to be greater in …
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ties to Mexico than with the fact that skill-based admissions are less important in the United States than in Australia and …
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This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation …
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