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Trade and the great divergence: The family connection
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2006
This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a major role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a significant determinant of the distribution of world population and a...
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Optimal Taxation, Global Externalities and Labor Mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören - 2000
This paper addresses transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax problem, when part of the labor force is mobile across countries. The policy instruments include both commodity taxation and nonlinear income taxation. We show how the tax policy in a noncooperative...
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Relative Consumption Concerns and the Optimal Tax Mix
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011
whole tax system is affected by the externalities caused by the consumption of positional goods, notably also the taxes on …
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Optimal redistributive taxation in a multi-externality model
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2011
This paper extends the previous literature on optimal redistributive taxation in the presence of externalities to a … multi-externality setting. While taxes on income and on 'clean' commodities are still unaffected by the externalities, which … implications for the optimal Pigouvian tax rates. In general the Pigouvian parts of taxation depend also on the externalities …
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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
Observers of Silicon Valley's computer cluster report that employees move rapidly between competing firms, but evidence supporting this claim is scarce. Job-hopping is important in computer clusters because it facilitates the reallocation of talent and resources toward firms with superior...
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...
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Optimal taxation of wealth transfers when bequests are motivated by joy of giving
Brunner, Johann K.; Pech, Susanne - 2011
Inherited wealth creates a second distinguishing characteristic of individuals, in addition to earning abilities. We incorporate this fact into a model of optimal labor income taxation, with bequests motivated by joy of giving. We find that taxes on bequests or on inheritances allow further...
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Optimal Taxes on Wealth and Consumption in the Presence of Tax Evasion
Brunner, Johann K.; Eckerstorfer, Paul; Pech, Susanne - 2010
This article incorporates tax evasion into an optimum taxation framework with individuals differing in earning abilities and initial wealth. We find that despite the possibility of its evasion a tax on initial wealth should supplement the optimal nonlinear income tax, given a positive...
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Government's and Agents' Preferences Differ
Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2005
Paternalism, merit goods and specific egalitarianism are concepts we sometimes meet in the literature. The thing in common is that the policy maker does not fully respect the consumer sovereignty principle and design policies according to some other criterion than individuals' preferences. Using...
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