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Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform

Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …

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From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden

Flood, Lennart; Pylkkänen, Elina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare … self-selection into welfare. The proposed reform would generate welfare-gains for virtually everyone in the sample, yet …

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The New Zealand Performance Based Research Fund and its Impact on Publication Activity in Economics

Anderson, David L.; Tressler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2013

New Zealand’s academic research assessment scheme, the Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF), was launched in 2002 with the stated objective of increasing research quality in the nation’s universities. Evaluation rounds were conducted in 2003, 2006 and 2012. In this paper, we employ 22...

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Citation-Capture Rates by Economic Journals:Do they Differ from Other Disciplines and Does it Matter?

Anderson, David L.; Tressler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2014

In this paper we compare the rate of citation-capture across the social sciences and sciences, with particular attention paid to economics and its border disciplines generally located in Schools of Business. We also explore citation time-flow differences between a number of leading journals in...

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Evaluating Research - Peer Review Team Assessment and Journal-Based Bibliographic Measures: New Zealand PBRF Research Output Scores in 2006

Anderson, David L.; Smart, Warren; Tressler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2012

This paper concerns the relationship between the assessment of the research of individual academics by peer or expert review teams with a variety of bibliometric schemes based on journal quality weights. Specifically, for a common group of economists from New Zealand departments of economics the...

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The Relevance of the ‘h’ and ‘g’ Index to Economics in the Context of a Nation-wide Research Evaluation Scheme: The New Zealand Case

Anderson, David L.; Tressler, John - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of the citation-based ‘h’ and ‘g’ indexes as a means for measuring research output in economics. This study is unique in that it is the first to utilize the ‘h’ and ‘g’ indexes in the context of a time limited evaluation...

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SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform.

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

. As an application the model is used to evaluate the recent Swedish “make work pay” reform, effective from 2007 and … further reinforced in 2008 and 2009. The key characteristic of this reform is an in-work tax credit and decreased state tax … income inequality. However, even considering the increase in hours of work, the reform is far from being self-financed.<p> …

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