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The replacement of payroll tax by a tax on revenues: A study of sectorial impacts on the Brazilian economy
da Silva, Wilton Bernardino; Paes, Nelson Leitão; … - In: EconomiA 16 (2015) 1, pp. 46-59
A topic of current research in discussion about the Brazilian economy is the exemption from payroll taxes, which aims to stimulate competitiveness of the firms, boosting economic growth. This topic was introduced in Brazil by new laws that proposed replacing the payroll tax with a new tax on...
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Wahrnehmungen und Funktionen in der Transformation zur Bioökonomie: Eine Akteursanalyse im Politikfeld "Boden"
Jürges, Nataly - 2016
The concept of bioeconomy has increasingly gained importance. The transition towards a bioeconomy is a new challenge … for the sustainable use of soils. In the development of transition strategies, the perspectives of actors need to be … functions are ful-filled by actors in the transition towards a bioeconomy. Actors relevant for soil policy have different …
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Can Korea Learn from German Unification?
Blum, Ulrich - 2011
how transition and integration interact in a potential unification process based on the World Bank Revised Minimum …
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2005
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may be expected to limit their exposure to rent seeking by reducing investments, among other things....
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Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
Hübler, Olaf; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2001
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main hypothesis: In establishments covered by collective bargaining agreements works councils are more likely...
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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Parametric contest success functions
Rai, Birendra K.; Sarin, Rajiv - 2007
The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifies the winning probabilities of agents. We provide an axiomatization of two parametric families of CSF's. In the first, the winning probability of each agent depends on the investments and a vector of...
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Good governance and good aid allocation
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008
We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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Contracts as rent seeking devices: evidence from German soccer
Feess, Eberhard; Gerfin, Michael; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2008
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273940