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.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …
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I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...
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rises (drops) during recessionary (non-recessionary) times. In general, consumption, investment, and employment follow in …
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We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We find that days of discretionary tax legislation during...
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Using a narrative account of quarterly discretionary changes in tax liabilities from 1974Q4 to 2018Q2 in a VAR setting, we study whether legislative tax changes affect the trade balance in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. As legislative tax changes we consider (i) all changes,...
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We estimate the elasticities of the most important tax categories using a new quarterly database of discretionary tax measures for the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom over the period 1980Q1 to 2018Q2. Employing Romer and Romer's (2009) narrative approach, we construct a...
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explained by differing probabilities of paid employment?' Luxembourg Income Study data on the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France … persuasive evidence that attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper therefore asks …) female, and total, employment rate. In every case, measured trans-Atlantic differences in the inequality of money income …
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density, deindustrialization, unemployment, employment levels, and education spending. The main determinants of redistribution … are (in order of magnitude) left government, family structure, welfare state generosity, unemployment, and employment …
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This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA … countries studied differ in the trends observed in aggregate income, poverty, polarization and income inequality. In the USA and … gains of the top decile of the UK and the USA had been transferred to the bottom decile, poverty in both countries in 1994 …
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This paper begins by asking how poverty in affluent countries should be measured, before examining recent evidence on poverty intensity and its social significance. Section 1 advocates use of the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon index of poverty intensity and introduces the 'Poverty Box' as a summary...
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