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The shadow economy in Colombia: size and effects on economic growth

Schneider, Friedrich; Hametner, Bettina - 2007

factors driving the shadow economy are unemployment and taxation. Analyzing the interaction between shadow and official …

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Optimal Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2001

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where goods are produced exclusively in the market and services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare are affected by labor taxes in general and sectoral...

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Labor Taxation in Search Equililbrium with Home Production

Holmlund, Bertil - 2000

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i.e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax...

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The shadow economy in Colombia: Size and effect on eonomic growth

Schneider, Friedrich; Hametner, Bettina - 2013

. The most important factors driving the shadow economy are indirect taxation and unemployment. Analyzing the interaction …

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Knapp's 'State Theory of Money' and its reception in German academic discourse

Ehnts, Dirk H. - 2019

In 1905, Georg Friedrich Knapp published The State Theory of Money in his native German, claiming that money is a "creature of law" and not connected to metals via some intrinsic value. When the English translation appeared in 1924, apparently at the wishes of John Maynard Keynes, the German...

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Income inequality, growth and elite taxation in Brazil: New evidence combining survey and fiscal data, 2001-2015

Morgan, Marc - 2018

This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently combining annual and nationally representative household...

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Fiscal justice in Brazil: Pathways to progress

Passos, Luana; Guedes, Dyeggo Rocha; Silveira, Fernando … - 2019

existing literature on its distributive role and its efficiency. The findings point to inefficient taxation that is still very … taxation of goods and services through the creation of a value-added tax (VAT) and changes in payroll so as to make it tax …-exempt. Five pathways are suggested to improve fiscal injustice: a reduction of indirect taxation; changes to the rates and …

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Saving and wealth inequality

De Nardi, Mariacristina; Fella, Giulio - 2017

Why are some people wealth rich while others are poor? To what extent can governments affect inequality? Which instruments should they use? Answering these questions requires understanding why people save. Dynamic quantitative models of wealth inequality can help us to understand and quantify...

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The intended and unintended consequences of taxing waste

Colussi, Tommaso; Romagnoli, Matteo; Villar, Elena - 2022

This paper investigates the economic and environmental effects of pay-as-youthrow (PAYT) waste programs. Using a newly constructed longitudinal dataset of Italian municipalities and a staked-by-event design, we obtain three main findings: (i) PAYT programs significantly reduce total waste...

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Saving social security

Lane, Edward - 2024

For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...

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