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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Anderson, Soren T.; Kellogg, Ryan; Langer, Ashley; … - 2013

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Layoff Tax and the Employment of the Elderly

Schnalzenberger, Mario; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

In 1996 Austria introduced a tax for the layoff of older workers, which was tightened in 2000. The regulation requires employers to pay a tax of up to 170 percent of the gross monthly income when they give notice to employees aged 50 or more. We use data from Austrian social security records to...

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Global Inflation

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Mojon, Benoît - 2008

This paper shows that in ation in industrialized countries is largely a global phenomenon. First, the inflation rates of 22 OECD countries have a common factor that alone accounts for nearly 70 percent of their variance. This large variance share that is associated with Global Inflation is not...

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Euro-productivity and euro-jobs since the 1960s: which institutions really mattered?

Lindert, Peter; Allard, Gayle - 2006

's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …

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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North

Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

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The epidemiology of macroeconomic expectations

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2001

explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …

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Cross-national differences in income poverty among Europe´s 50+

Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

that unemployment, being a homemaker, self-employed, living single, and having a child living close, are associated with an …

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Relative status and satisfaction

Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

children appear to compare their actual economic status with that of their parents, deriving large satisfaction gains from an …This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic … income rank that is higher than that of their parents. The effect is asymmetric with regard to parents, as these seem not to …

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The McKenna rule and UK World War I finance

Nason, James M.; Vahey, Shaun P. - 2007

The United Kingdom employed the McKenna rule to conduct fiscal policy during World War I (WWI) and the interwar period. Named for Reginald McKenna, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1915–16), the McKenna rule committed the United Kingdom to a path of debt retirement, which we show was...

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Taxpayer Responses to Competitive Tax Policies and Tax Policy Responses to Competitive Taxpayers : Recent Evidence

Altshuler, Rosanne; Grubert, Harry - 2004

We use information from the tax returns of U.S. multinational corporations to address three questions related to tax competition. First, does tax competition or company tax planning behavior better explain recent decreases in the local effective tax rates faced by U.S. multinationals investing...

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