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Do Gender, Child, and Parent Characteristics Contribute to Intergenerational Subjective Well-Being Mobility? Evidence from Russia during 1994-2019
Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya - 2022
contributions by analyzing rich panel SWB data from Russia over the past quarter century, which address various shortcomings with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351783
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Myth and Reality of Flat Tax Reform: Micro Estimates of Tax Evasion Response and Welfare Effects in Russia
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Peter, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Using micro-level data, we examine the effects of Russia’s 2001 flat rate income tax reform on consumption, income, and … find that large and significant changes in tax evasion following the flat tax reform are associated with changes in … taxpayers to the flat tax reform is small relative to the tax evasion response. Finally, we develop a feasible framework to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703531
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Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017
Dang, Hai-Anh; Abanokova, Kseniya; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207739
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Income tax flattening: does it help to reduce the shadow economy?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009
This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269186
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Product market regulation, firm size, unemployment and informality in developing economies
Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Terra, Cristina - 2011
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, differing only with respect to some parameter values. Both formal and informal firms have monopoly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278505
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739418
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - 2014
Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333270
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The Causal Effects of Enclosures on Production and Productivity
Lazuka, Volha; Bengtsson, Tommy; Svensson, Patrick - 2023
Enclosures enforced private property rights at the onset of industrialization, yet numerous estimations of the enclosures' effects on production and productivity rely on non- experimental designs. We estimate the causal effects of enclosure reforms applying state- of-the-art...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377297
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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
Strittmatter, Anthony; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction of public health care systems in different countries, which is the random outcome of a political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220618
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis; Zhu, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative price of industrial products, but has a limited effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682947