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Do regional payroll tax reductions boost employment?
Bennmarker, Helge; Mellander, Erik; Öckert, Björn - 2008
Using a Difference-in-Differences approach we evaluate the effects of a 10 percentage points reduction in the payroll tax introduced in 2002 for firms in the northern part of Sweden. We find no employment effects for existing firms and can rule out that a 1 percentage point payroll tax reduction...
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The incidence of cash for clunkers: An analysis of the 2009 car scrappage scheme in Germany
Kaul, Ashok; Pfeifer, Gregor; Witte, Stefan - 2012
focus is on the incidence of the subsidy, i.e., we ask how much of the € 2,500 buyer subsidy is captured by the supply … subsidy amount. However, the incidence was heterogeneous across price segments. Subsidized buyers of cheap cars paid more than …
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Growing electric vehicle adoption: Implications for infrastructure maintenance and the tax burden on families of different funding policies
Burns, Kalee E.; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2023
This paper examines the distribution of the gasoline tax burden in the presence of increased electric vehicle adoption. Automobile manufacturers and even some states have ambitious goals to phase out gas-powered cars. However, in spite of these plans, the primary source of automobile...
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Unemployment: The silent epidemic
Tcherneva, Pavlina R. - 2017
This paper examines two key aspects of unemployment-its propagation mechanism and socioeconomic costs. It identifies a key feature of this macroeconomic phenomenon: it behaves like a disease. A detailed assessment of the transmission mechanism and the existing pecuniary and nonpecuniary costs of...
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Property taxation, bounded rationality and housing prices
Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - 2014
In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected - in line with tax capitalization theory - that...
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Social segregation and the dynamics of group inequality
Bowles, Samuel; Sethi, Rajiv - 2006
We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. …
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Did the 2017 tax reform discriminate against blue state voters?
Altig, David; Auerbach, Alan J.; Higgins, Patrick; … - 2019
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) made significant changes to corporate and personal federal income taxation, including limiting the SALT (state and local property, income and sales taxes) deductibility to $10,000. States with high SALT tend to vote Democratic. This paper estimates the...
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Household wealth and the measurement of economic well-being in the United States
Wolff, Edward N.; Zacharias, Ajit - 2006
The standard official measure of household economic well-being in the United States is gross money income. The general consensus is that such measures are limited because they ignore other crucial determinants of well-being. We modify the standard measure to account for one such determinant:...
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
If people are more altruistic towards their own kind, the increased ethnic heterogeneity resulting from increased immigration to Europe in recent decades will likely lead to reduced support for redistribution among natives. This paper exploits a nationwide program placing refugees in...
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Ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution: Reply
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2013
In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
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