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Stratification and Public Utility Services in Colombia: Subsidies to Households or Distortions on Housing Prices?
Medina, Carlos; Morales, Leonardo - Banco de la Republica de Colombia
Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesis that the flow of subsidies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005274526
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Stratification and Public Utility Services in Colombia: Subsidies to Households or Distortion of Housing Prices?
Morales, Leonardo; Medina, Carlos - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)
Domiciliary public utility services in Colombia have a cross subsidy system which charges subsidized rates to the households who live in houses located in strata associated to low wealth levels, and taxed rates to the better off. We assesses the hypothesis that the flow of subsidies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021297
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Distributive effects of the 2010 tax reform in Mexico: A microsimulation analysis
Absalón, Carlos; Urzúa, Carlos M. - In: Fiscal Inclusive Development: Microsimulation Models …
This chapter starts with a description of the main features of the current Mexican tax system and of a (minor) tax reform that took place in 2010, when the government tried to correct for a drastic fall in its revenues because of the economic collapse in 2009. It then describes in a detailed way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561868
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Distributive effects of the 2010 tax reform in Mexico: A microsimulation analysis
Absalón, Carlos; Urzúa, Carlos M. - Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y … - 2011
This paper starts with a description of the main features of the current Mexican tax system and of a (minor) tax reform that took place in 2010, when the government tried to correct for a drastic fall in its revenues because of the economic collapse in 2009. It then describes in a detailed way a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561874
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Subsidies to Electricity Consumption and Housing Demand in Bogotá
Casas, Camila - BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA - 2014
In this paper, I estimate the demand for housing in Bogotá, modeling electricity consumption explicitly to take into account the crossed subsidies included in Colombian utility rates. I use household level data on housing prices, observable dwelling attributes, and demographic variables to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010946006
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The incidence of Payroll Taxes in Ontario and Quebec; Evidence from collective agreements for 1985-2007
César, Edison Roy; Vaillancourt, François - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010
incidence of an increase in payroll tax. The results of this model show that that after one year, a one percentage point …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008591371
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Teaching Note: Let's Stop Professing That the Legal Incidence of the Social Security Tax Is Irrelevant
McClure, James E.; Cott, T. Norman Van - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 4, pp. 483-486
The U.S. Social Security levy is widely used by economists to illustrate the irrelevance of legal tax incidence for … economic incidence. However, the levy's magnitude in conjunction with an asymmetry in the U.S. federal income tax code make the … levy's legal incidence highly relevant for its economic incidence. The legal incidence of the social security levy is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769888
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Modelos de micro-simulación para el análisis de las políticas públicas
Absalón, Carlos; Urzúa, Carlos M. - Escuela de Graduados en Administración Pública y … - 2010
This paper reviews the use of microsimulation models as a tool for public policy analysis. This methodology, introduced initially in the fifties, has recently being used intensively specially in Europe thanks to the development of faster computers and better microdata surveys. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008585874
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Gray-Molina, George; Higgins, Sean; … - 2012
We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610689
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Molina, George Gray; Higgins, Sean; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161651