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We examine the living standards and health of working-age disabled people and disability benefits recipients over time … in the UK. The UK’s disability benefits system (which is non-means-tested and in which receipt is unrelated to work … are now on disability benefits, up from 2% in 1992–93. This rise has been driven by claims for mental health and other …
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This paper examines the implications of that workers may not be able to estimate their true costs of acquiring skills. Consequently, too few workers may acquire skills. This allows for the possibility that subsidizing education is welfare improving. Furthermore, if the presence of skill-biased...
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income taxes as well as capital gains taxes and start-up capital subsidies on the volume and quality of venture capital …
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correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem … lower electricity prices Even with multiple market failures, emissions pricing remains the single most cost-effective option …
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This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether non-monetary prices better target health products to the poor than monetary prices. Monetary WTP is increasing in income and non-monetary WTP is weakly decreasing in income....
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producing and consuming regions and the cost of restrictions on upstream subsidies. … internationally than raising the cost of bads (as through carbon taxes). These support policies may encourage downstream consumption … (renewable energy deployment) or upstream development and manufacturing of those technologies. The use of subsidies …
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energy indicate that a modest social cost of carbon can imply benefits from allowing upstream subsidies. …Industrial policy has long been criticized as subject to protectionist interests; accordingly, subsidies to domestic … new environmental good (like low-carbon technology) whose downstream consumption provides external benefits (like reduced …
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...
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Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in...
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