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This paper describes key aspects of the frameworks for the assessment of adult numeracy and mathematical literacy in PIAAC and PISA, which are OECD two flagship programs for international comparative assessment of competencies. The paper examines commonalities and differences in how the...
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The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labour market. In the setting,...
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While there is a large and growing number of studies on the determinants of corporate tax rates, the literature has so far ignored the fact that the behavior of governments in setting tax rates is often best described as a discrete choice decision problem. We set up an empirical model that...
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When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union`s fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...
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The paper presents an endogenous growth economy with a representation of the tax rate system in the Baltic countries. Assuming that government spending is a given fraction of output, the paper shows how a flat tax system balanced between labor and corporate tax rates can be second best optimal....
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In this paper we offer a meta-analysis approach to (simulation) studies on environmental tax reform (ETR). The underlying studies look both at environmental effects (e.g. reduction in CO2 emission) and economic effects (e.g. change in gross domestic product) following such a tax reform. The...
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In the beginning of the 1980s, Cameroon witnessed a sustained rate of growth, associated essentially with the boom in the oil sector. Increased budgetary and extra-budgetary resources generated by this sector helped to raise the investment rate in the economy, and to maintain a reasonable level...
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The paper explores the hypothesis of a double dividend from environmental taxation i.e. whether shifting the burden of taxation away from labour toward the environment can boost employment and increase welfare. We present a general-equilibrium model where the economy is distorted by labour...
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Zur Untersuchung des internationalen Steuerwettbewerbs und dessen Auswirkungen für die deutsche Wirtschaft befragte das ifo Institut im Auftrag der Stiftung Familienunternehmen von April bis Juli 2018 mehr als 1 250 Familien- und Nicht-Familienunternehmen aus Deutschland. Den Ergebnissen der...
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Im April dieses Jahres hat das Bundesverfassungsgericht die derzeit gültigen Vorschriften für die Bemessung der Grundsteuer für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Der Gesetzgeber wurde beauftragt, bis zum 31. Dezember 2019 eine Neuregelung zu treffen. Die Forschungsgruppe Steuer- und Finanzpolitik...
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