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Taxation and Domestic Free Trade
Johnsson, Richard - Ratioinstitutet - 2004
In this paper it is argued that the domestic division of labor and trade is organized according to the same principle as the international division of labor and trade – the Ricardian comparative advantages. After all, the ultimate source of these comparative advantages is the individual. The...
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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 4 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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Expanding the welfare system : a proposal for reform.
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1998
accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital … may be expected to play a substantial role in reducing unemployment, encouraging labour force participation, promoting …
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VAT Rate Effect on Price Setting Behaviour in Latvia: Evidence from CPI Micro Data
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Fadejeva, Ludmila - Latvijas Banka - 2013
This paper evaluates the inflation effect of recent VAT rate changes in Latvia by using CPI micro data. Our findings suggest that the pass-through of the tax rate to consumer prices is strong in case of upward tax adjustments, especially when there are no demand restrictions, while the...
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Implementation of EU legislation on rail liberalisation in Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands
Deville, Xavier; Verduyn, Fabienne - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2012
This study provides a detailed and easy-to read overview of the railway liberalisation in Belgium and the three neighbouring countries. The European Union's liberalisation Directives are often complex and are implemented in very specific ways in the different Member States. The analysis goes...
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The welfare cost of imperfect competition and distortionary taxation
Jonsson, Magnus - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 4, pp. 576-594
The welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product and labor markets in the United States is quantified in a dynamic general equilibrium model. We find that the welfare cost of imperfect competition in the product market is 3.62 percent while it is 0.58 percent in the labor market, taking...
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Efficient redistribution: Comparing basic income with unemployment benefit
FitzRoy, Felix; Jin, Jim - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2011
Given a general utility function and income distribution, we compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment … first focus on extensive margins of labor supply. For any given unemployment level, lowering UB and raising BI always … benefits the unemployed, raises utilitarian welfare and benefits a poor majority. Reducing unemployment and UB simultaneously …
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Eficiencia y equidad en el diseño de precios óptimos para bienes y servicios públicos
Valiñas, María Angeles García - In: Hacienda Pública Española (2004) 1, pp. 95-119
La motivación fundamental de esta investigación ha radicado en revisar las posibilidades que manejan los entes públicos en el diseño de instrumentos de financiación basados en el principio del beneficio. Numerosos bienes y servicios públicos son suministrados a cambio de una...
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Evaluating Welfare with Nonlinear Prices
Reiss, Peter C.; White, Matthew W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper examines how to evaluate consumer welfare when consumers face nonlinear prices. This problem arises in many settings, such as devising optimal pricing strategies for firms, assessing how price discrimination affects consumers, and evaluating the efficiency costs of many transfer...
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Are Two Tax Rates Better Than One?
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 2009
Should two–band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...
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