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Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy

Carroll, William K. (contributor) - 2021

Rapidly rising carbon emissions from the intense development of Western Canada's fossil fuels continue to aggravate the global climate emergency and destabilize democratic structures. The urgency of the situation demands not only scholarly understanding, but effective action. Regime of...

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The incidence of the U.S.-China solar trade war

Houde, Sebastien; Wang, Wenjun - 2022

This paper investigates the distributional welfare effects of the recent trade war in the solar manufacturing sector resulting from the U.S. government-initiated trade tariffs against Chinese solar manufacturers. Our structural econometric model incorporates the vertical structure between...

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Weak parties and the inequality trap in Latin America

Lupu, Noam - 2024

Latin America is widely acknowledged as one of the most unequal regions of the world (Sánchez-Ancochea 2021). But it is also one of the most democratic, certainly as compared to other developing regions. These two facts seem difficult to reconcile. Both folk theories of democratic...

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Do Market-Based Tax Incentives Attract New Businesses? Evidence from the New Markets Tax Credit

Ross, Amanda; Wolf, Kaitlyn - 2014

-income communities to be based on market-based policies that encourage private investment in low-income communities. The underlying logic … opportunities to a struggling area, there will be increased employment opportunities and the market will operate to reach an … efficient outcome. In this paper, we use the New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) adopted in 2000 by the U.S. government to determine …

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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28

Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some...

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Arvio t&k-verokannusteen vaikutuksista yritysten toimintaan Suomessa

Kuusi, Tero; Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; … - 2016

In this report, we analyze the Finnish R&D tax incentive scheme of the years 2013 and 2014. Under the scheme, firms were eligible for double corporate tax deduction incentive on labor expenses incurred for undertaking R&D activities. Our report consists of a literature review, an empirical...

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Investment Tax Credits and the Response of Firms

Lerche, Adrian - 2019

This paper studies the effects of investment tax credits on firms' input choices by exploitinga sudden shift in the tax credit rate by firm size for manufacturing firms in Germany in 1999. I find that more generous tax credits lead to a significant increase in both investment and employment,...

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The effects of R&D tax credits on patenting and innovations

Cappelen, Ådne; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina - 2008

Norwegian business spending on R&D is low by OECD standards. To stimulate business R&D, in 2002 the Norwegian … contribute to innovations in the form of new products for the market or patenting. …

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The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply A Simulation Study for Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael; Leu, Robert E. - 2003

Income support for working low income families (the ?working poor?) is on top of the political agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to support working poor households. Labour unions propose the introduction of a general minimum wage, whereas the...

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Tax credits, income support and partnership decisions

Anderberg, Dan - 2007

This paper considers the potential impact of welfare benefits on the partnership status of women in the UK. Using recent policy reforms to identify the response rate I find that a £100/week welfare benefit "partnership penalty" reduces the probability of a woman having a partner by seven...

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