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This paper investigates how corporate income taxes affect international trade, and identifies the underlying channel …. Using data on 33 NACE sectors, for 34 EU and OECD economies, over the period 2005-2014, we find that corporate income taxes …
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While rent taxation in some theories is neutral, and the tax rate could not be set to one hundred percent to minimize …
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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … the personal income tax in regulating these incomes. We produce a new distributional series of fiscal income, consistently … combining annual and nationally representative household survey data with detailed information on income tax declarations …
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality – that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor – less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …
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Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
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Annual, before-tax income is the most common official statistic used to measure economic well-being and therefore … underlies the design of most anti-poverty programs or other redistributive economic policies. Notwithstanding, extended income … income and age groups, and somewhat different answers about trends in resources over time. More importantly, by explicitly …
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Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...
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additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in … previous work. We identify the strength of sorting solely from a ranking of firms by profits. To discern the sign of sorting …
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, operating surplus and profits as performance indicators are estimated. Heterogeneity and robustness are investigated by a … operating surplus of IV panel estimates. However, on average, we find a tendency towards negative effects on profits. This …
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