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price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …
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This work examines the socio-economic determinants of body weight in UK by means of two recent waves from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results support some findings in the literature, but also point to new conclusions and show that quantile regression estimates are quite different...
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intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …
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The current study is divided into two parts. Part I deals with the indices of resource and impact decoupling for 13 countries of the EU, for a period spanning from 1990 to 2011. Employing the major pressures, of GHG emissions, mineral resource extraction and land use, the different cases of...
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find no compelling evidence that the choice of estimation method explains variation in elasticity estimates. From our …
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This paper provides a general equilibrium theoretical model of alcohol taxation and empirically estimates this model. For this purpose, we use a model determined by both externality corrections and fiscal considerations as the tax increase is assumed to immediately change other governmental...
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It is important for the design of tax policy to be able to measure reliably the income elasticity of tax revenue. This … produce labour supply responses which considerably alter tax revenue elasticity calculations. It is shown that , even with …
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elasticity, of around 0.9, is obtained for 2001 income levels. However, non-equiproportional income changes are more realistic …. Allowing for regression towards the geometric mean income reduces these elasticities, giving an elasticity for income and … of various excises has an important effect on the overall consumption tax revenue elasticity, especially for individuals …
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A series of recent articles has called into question the validity of VAR models of the global market for crude oil. These studies seek to replace existing oil market models by structural VAR models of their own based on different data, different identifying assumptions, and a different...
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for publication bias, we estimate an average wage elasticity to corporate taxes of -0.024. Our average estimate of the … semi-elasticity suggests that the tax incidence effect on wages is economically small: A 1%-point increase in CIT rates is …
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