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adjusted. Thisadjustment consists of designing the income tax schedule that, given the expenditurepolicy, achieves consensus … among the population. The model determines theconsensus income tax schedule, the composition of public expenditure and the …-rich bias in public expenditure, and positively ornegatively related to the marginal income tax, depending on substitutability …
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Government support of private (occupational and personal) pensionsthrough the system of tax reliefs is large: between … statistical comparisons of the distributionalimpact of the present system and three alternative versions of the tax …-creditscheme. An appendix discusses the methodology for calculating the costof pension tax reliefs over time.[...] …
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This paper represents the results of a small-scale qualitative study, exploringpublic perceptions of the redistributive effects of taxation and public spendingin the UK. Redistribution is not at the top of people’s minds when they considerthese issues and it is a complex subject on which they...
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Endogenous growth models, such as Barro (1990), predict that governmentexpenditure and taxation will have both temporary and permanent effects on growth.We test this prediction using panels of annual and period-averaged data for OECDcountries during 1970-95, isolating long-run from short-run...
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Im Jahr 2004 fuhr die Gesetzliche Pflegeversicherung (GPV) ein Rekorddefizit von 820Millionen Euro ein. Damit ist die Rücklage – abzüglich der gesetzlich vorgeschriebenenMindestreserve – auf ca. 1.18 Milliarden Euro zusammengeschmolzen. Kommt es zu keinergrundlegenden Reform, muss der...
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Das Durchschnittsalter der deutschen Bevölkerung wird sich binnen der nächsten fünfDekaden massiv erhöhen. Der Grund dafür ist der so genannte „doppelte Alterungsprozess“.Dieser wird als „doppelt“ bezeichnet, da zum einen durch die geringen Geburtenraten seit den1970er Jahren junge...
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It is increasingly recognised that improving the quality and quantity of children’s services isan essential part of any long-term strategy to tackle poverty and social exclusion amongchildren. As part of its wider programme to address child poverty in England, Save TheChildren commissioned...
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This paper introduces a democratic voting process into an OLG economyin order to analyze the effects of a rising old-age dependency ratio on the composition ofgovernment spending and endogenous economic growth. Forward-looking agents vote eachperiod on the public policy mix between productive...
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The output multiplier turns negative before a deficit spending program expires.We show the generality of this unpleasant finding for the standard real business cyclemodel. We then calibrate an extended model for the US and demonstrate how fiscalstimulus slows down economic recovery from...
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In diesem Papier wird untersucht, welche Auswirkungen die Verfügbarkeit vonInfrastruktur auf die unternehmerische Investitionsentscheidung hat. Dabei ist unterstellt,dass Infrastruktur zum einen Input in der Produktionsfunktion ist und zumanderen die Höhe der Anpassungskosten beeinflusst. Als...
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