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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478045
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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860
Crucini, Mario J. - 2014
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458419
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Practical Monetary Policy : Examples from Sweden and the United States
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 2012
In the summer of 2010, the Federal Reserve's and the Swedish Riksbank's inflation forecasts were below the former's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates. Given the mandates of the Federal Reserve and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460835
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Markets, Governments, and the Institutional Structure of Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
governments or market institutions provide the services. Sweden and the United States are on opposite ends of this spectrum. After … compare the development of the social welfare institutions in the U.S. and Sweden in the 20th century …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210094
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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy : New and Received Wisdom
Forslund, Anders - 1994
About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in … the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …
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Job creation in Colombia vs the U.S : “up or out dynamics” meets “the life cycle of plants”
Eslava, Marcela - 2019
There is growing consensus that a key difference between the U.S. and developing economies is that the latter exhibit slower employment growth over the life cycle of the average business. At the same time, the rapid post entry growth in the U.S. is driven by an "up or out dynamic". We track...
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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth
Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008
Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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Technology and Labor Regulations
Alesina, Alberto - 2006
Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US...
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The Regulation of Labor
Djankov, Simeon - 2003
We investigate the regulation of labor markets through employment laws, collective bargaining laws, and social security laws in 85 countries. We find that richer countries regulate labor less than poorer countries do, although they have more generous social security systems. The political power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468942