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C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2012

Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].

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Fiscal transfers to immigrants in Canada: responding to critics and a revised estimate

Grubel, Herbert; Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In 2011, we estimated that in 2005 Canada’s immigrant selection policies resulted in an average fiscal burden on taxpayers of $6,000 for each immigrant. Later that year, Mohsen Javdani and Krishna Pendakur from the economics department at Simon Fraser University (J&P hereafter) presented an...

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Decomposing Redistributive and Reranking Effects to Reveal Contributions of Taxes and Benefits

Urban, Ivica - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010

established. The methodology is applied in an analysis of the Croatian system of direct taxes and cash social benefits. …

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Relevant Aspects of Public Investments Valuation

Mirela, Iloiu; Sorin, Iloiu; Diana, Csiminga - In: Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics 11 (2011) 3, pp. 131-138

Recent developments, such as privatization and the private finance initiative, have raised the issue of which assets should be owned by the public sector and whether assets have different values in the public and private sector. In order to answer to this question we make here a parallel between...

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Tax-benefit microsimulation in Ecuador: A feasibility study

Jara, H. Xavier - 2015

The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility to implement a tax and benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador using EUROMOD as an interface. We first present a detailed description of the main components of the tax and benefit system in Ecuador for year 2014. We then describe available...

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The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets: Second Edition

Boeri, Tito; Ours, Jan van - Princeton University Press

protection legislation, unemployment benefits, active labor market policies, working-time regulations, family policies, equal …

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The effects of taxes and benefits on income distribution in the enlarged EU

Paulus, Alari; Čok, Mitja; Figari, Francesco; … - 2009

Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … model, which simulates taxes and benefits for representative samples of household micro-data and through a common framework … and composition of incomes, and the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. …

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Decomposing Redistributive and Reranking Effects to Reveal Contributions of Taxes and Benefits

Urban, Ivica - 2010

established. The methodology is applied in an analysis of the Croatian system of direct taxes and cash social benefits. …

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Financial Incentives to Work Decomposed: The Finnish Case

Kotamäki, Mauri; Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2018

that taxation and unemployment benefits account the largest shares of the mean PTR. Another finding is that PTRs vary …

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Redistributive Effect and the Progressivity of Taxes and Benefits: Evidence for the UK, 1977-2018

Herault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2021

components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …

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