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incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
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strong agglomeration economies in Japanese investment. Two policy variables are consistently shown to influence the location … of investment - foreign trade zones and labor subsidies. We use simulations to explore the impact these policies had on … the geographic distribution of Japanese investment. The simulations reveal that in aggregate promotion programs largely …
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with the cost of capital cannot be found, investment in Japanese manufacturing shows until 1974 a strong association with … of capitalis the major determinant of investment …
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The distinction between production and purchases of investment goods is essential for quantifying the response to … changes in investment tax incentives. If investment goods are tradeable, a large fraction of the demand from changes in tax … subsidies will be met from abroad. This difference between production and purchases implies that investment tax incentives will …
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the present value of the returns from an initial investment of [1pound], using the social discount rate, should be equal …
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In this paper, we examine what groups of children are served by core childhood social-safety net programs—including Medicaid, EITC, CTC, SNAP, and AFDC/TANF—and how that's changed over time. We find that virtually all gains in spending on the social safety net for children since 1990 have...
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This paper analyzes the implications of tax policy for the accumulation of human and physical capital and for the overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income. discriminates against investments in human capital relative...
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An essential feature of schooling is not only that it occurs in a different site than most on-the-job training but also that it is more intensive. That is, a smaller proportion of gross potential earnings is sacrificed in on-the-job training than in schooling. In estimating human capital...
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Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
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We present a model of endogenous firm growth with R&D investment and stochastic innovation as the engines of growth …) firm growth independent of firm size, as stated in the so-called Gibrat's law, and (iii) R&D investment proportional to …
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