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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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In-state tuition for undocumented immigrants and its impact on college enrollment, tuition costs, student financial aid, and indebtedness
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Sparber, Chad - 2012
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal law, several states have passed legislation explicitly allowing undocumented immigrants to pay...
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A cross-country database of fiscal space
Kose, M. Ayhan; Kurlat, Sergio; Ohnsorge, Franziska; … - 2017
This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...
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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
Vodopivec, Milan - 2004
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...
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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...
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Gerechtigkeit und Effizienz nachgelagerter Studiengebühren
Becker, Sascha O.; Fenge, Robert - In: ifo Schnelldienst 58 (2005) 02, pp. 16-22
Mit seinem Urteil vom 26. Januar 2005 hob das Bundesverfassungsgericht das Verbot von Studiengebühren für das Erststudium auf und stellt es damit den Bundesländern frei, Studiengebühren zu erheben. In diesem Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass Studiengebühren als solche nicht ungerecht sein...
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Increasing Access to Higher Education Through Student Loans
Ziderman, Adrian - In: CESifo DICE Report 11 (2013) 2, pp. 11-18
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Finanzierungsstrategien und ihre Auswirkungen auf den Unternehmenswert deutscher Immobilien-Kapitalgesellschaften
Schönemann, Kristin - 2009
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die steuerinduzierten Wirkungen der Außenfinanzierung auf den Unternehmenswert von Immobilien-Kapitalgesellschaften. Im diesem Bereich existieren neben der gewerblichen Immobilien-AG steuerbegünstigte Rechtsformen, wie die vermögensverwaltende Immobilien-AG...
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The Equity Trap, the Cost of Capital and the Firm´s Growth Path
Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan - 2006
This paper reconsiders Sinn's (1991) nucleus theory of the corporation by comparing two different regimes for the equity trap. In the first of these, all cash paid to the shareholders is taxed as dividends, in the second, shareholders are allowed a tax-free return of capital contributed through...
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Economic Effects of Taxing Different Organizational Forms under a Dual Income Tax
Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan; Öberg, Ann - 2003
This paper analyzes the economic effects of different income splitting rules for closely held corporations and sole proprietorships/partnerships in a tax system with a dual income tax. We conclude that the tax rules for closed corporations offer roughly the same cost of capital as for widely...
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