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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2009
1970 -- the income gap between the US and the sending country, the education gap between the US and the sending country …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464963
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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015
used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456893
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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 … income and wage tax rates have significant negative effects on city employment levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471167
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The Taxation of Executive Compensation
Hall, Brian J. - 2000
Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the share of executive compensation paid through stock options. In this paper, we examine the extent to which tax policy has influenced the composition of executive compensation, and discuss the implications of rising stock-based pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471173
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471502
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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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The Effect of Beverage Taxes on Youth Consumption and BMI : Evidence from Mauritius
Cawley, John H.; Daly, Michael R.; Thornton, Rebecca L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are relatively new and there is little evidence about their impact on SSB consumption or body mass index (as opposed to prices, purchases, or sales), their impact on youth (as opposed to on adults), or their impact in non-Western nations. This paper adds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585444
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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
-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and … is that the country experienced a process of "unequal growth," where top earners became richer while the income levels of … economy grows. Low-income earners are willing to support such policies only in exchange for an expansion of entitlement …
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Debt Policy and the Rate of Return Premium to Leverage
Kane, Alex - 1984
Equilibrium in the market for real assets requires that the price of those assets be bid up to reflect the tax shields they can offer to levered firms.Thus there must be an equality between the market values of real assets and the values of optimally levered firms. The standard measure of the...
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