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This paper presents an approach for the estimation of welfare effects of tax policy changes under heterogeneity in consumer preferences. The approach is applied to evaluate the welfare effects of current tax advantages for electric vehicles supplied as fringe benefits by employers. Drawing on...
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analysis suggests that a discrepancy between the income that is reported inour database and the income on which the decision to … model is explicitly based on the assumption that the decision-making processes arebased on an income level that may be … different from that reported in the data. Forhouseholds that receive the housing benefit we can compute this alternative income …
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In this paper the relation between religion and income is investigated using a micro-dataset for the Netherlands …. Religiosity is measured by religious membership and by participation. Instead of estimating separately a religion and an income … approach, both religious measures are found to decrease significantly income and income is found to affect negatively religion …
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This paper analyzes efficient pricing at a congested airport dominated by a single firm. Unlike much of the previous literature, we combine a dynamic (bottleneck) model of congestion and a vertical structure model that explicitly considers the role of airlines and passengers. We show that when a...
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In this paper we investigate trade union formation. To this end we apply a model with two types of labour where both groups decide on whether they prefer to be represented by either two independent craft-specific (professional) labour unions or by a joint (encompassing) labour union. Applying...
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We study multiple agents along a general river structure that is expressed by a geography matrix and who have access to limited local resources, quasi-linear preferences over water and money and cost functions dependent upon river inflow and own extraction. Unanimity bargaining determines the...
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the age of 50 by parental income for men. However, the longevity gains of men from low-income families seem to have come … at the cost of increased mortality among men who grew up in high-income families. This raises questions about the welfare …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … synthesize research results on price and income elasticities of residentialwater demand report in the literature. These … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed inthe nineties by Oswald ,Clark , Blanchflower and others with the older incomeevaluation (IEQ) approach, developed by Van Praag and Kapteyn in theseventies of the previous century. We find that both approaches yield...
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Much attention has been paid to the influence of the institutional form of waste collection on costs. We extend this literature in three directions by including the unit-based pricing system. First, we show that unit-based pricing systems are more important from a cost-minimizing point of view...
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