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Local Revenue Hills : A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities

Haughwout, Andrew - 2000

.S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income … taxation), and Philadelphia (property, gross receipts, and wage taxation). Results suggest that all four of our cities are near …

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Efficiency Effects on the U.S. Economy from Wireless Taxation

Hausman, Jerry - 1999

This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are …

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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act

Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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New Gig Work or Changes in Reporting? Understanding Self-Employment Trends in Tax Data

Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Rising self-employment rates in U.S. tax data that are absent in survey data have led to speculation that tax records capture a rise in new "gig" work that surveys miss. Drawing on the universe of IRS tax returns, we show that trends in firm-reported payments to "gig" and other contract workers...

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Billionaire Superstar : Public Image and Demand for Taxation

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Yusof, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

lower than the average American. Is this due to a lack of public support for taxation? Is it due to misperceptions about … treatments would positively affect the demand for taxation, most treatments have a null or negative effect. Providing information … about the lavish lifestyles of billionaires does have a robust positive effect on the demand for taxation …

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The Economics of Recycling Heterogeneity

Fullerton, Don; Kinnaman, Thomas C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We summarize the economics of recycling municipal solid waste. OECD data suggest that aggregate recycling rates in member countries have plateaued in recent decades. United States recycling rates for some materials remain low, even after decades of learning and participation. Major new policies...

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U.S. Tax Laws and Capital Flight From Latin America

McLure, Charles E, Jr - 1988

be more effective would be a switch to consumption-based direct taxation in which interest income is neither taxed nor …

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Optimal Income Taxation and Charitable Giving

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The philanthropic sector is highly consequential, particularly in the United States, and the most important policies directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This...

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