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Employment-conditional tax credit and benefit systems
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 3, pp. 35-41
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On some fiscal effects on mortgage debt growth in the EU
Wolswijk, Guido - 2005
This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal...
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The economic progress of American Jewry: from 18th century merchants to 21st century professionals
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial …-employed professionals. The high level of human wealth of contemporary American Jews is not at the expense of non-human wealth. Overall, and … even when other variables including schooling are held constant, Jews have higher levels of wealth and higher rates of …
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket medical expenses, as well as financial wealth sufficient to buffer against …
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Wealth Dynamics in the 1980's and 1990's: Sweden and the U.S.
Klevmarken, Anders; Lupton, Joseph; Stafford, Frank - 2000
wealth accumulation in these two countries can be enlightening. In this paper we examine wealth inequality and mobility in … Sweden and the United States over the past decade. We show that wealth inequality has been significantly greater in the U …. In addition to less inequality and a higher median wealth, we also show that wealth quintile mobility in the 1990's has …
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
During the last decade unicameral proposals have been put forward in fourteen US states. In this paper we propose a theoretical framework casting some lights on the drawbacks of bicameral state legislatures and on the effects of the proposed constitutional reforms. In a setting where lawmakers...
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Kombilöhne gegen Erwerbsarmut: Warum die USA erfolgreicher sind als Deutschland
Berthold, Norbert; Coban, Mustafa - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 2, pp. 118-124
Lohnsubventionen und Kombilöhne sind ein fester Bestandteil des arbeitsmarktpolitischen Instrumentariums industrieller Länder. Sie haben das Ziel, Arbeitslose zu motivieren, auch Beschäftigungen mit geringerem Marktlohn anzunehmen sowie den Lebensstandard der Geförderten zu erhöhen und...
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Taxes and pensions
Diamond, Peter - 2009
Pension benefit rules depend on individual history far more than taxes do, and age plays a much larger role in pension determination than in tax determination. Apart from some simulation studies, theoretical studies of optimal tax design typically contain neither a mandatory pension system nor...
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Parteien, Verbände und Bewegungen als Systeme politischer Interessenvermittlung
Rucht, Dieter - In: Stand und Perspektiven der Parteienforschung in Deutschland, (pp. 251-275). 1993
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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