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With states facing tightening Medicaid budgets, the high cost of financing long-term care for the elderly through Medicaid has prompted proposals to make private long-term care insurance (LTCI) more affordable through tax incentives. The effectiveness of tax incentives for stimulating LTCI...
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Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly … that the calibrated model with both frictions produces a savings–investment correlation and a volume of capital flows close …
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changes in household savings are negatively related to exogenous income shocks, with this relationship strongest for low … wealth households. Only models of consumption which include precautionary savings motives can explain why poorer households … both reduce their consumption and increase their savings in response to an exogenous decline in income. …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that savers may be substituting equity capital gains from stockholdings for traditional measures of personal saving. The analysis also aims to investigate dividend yield (DY) as a signal to investors about corporate saving rates...
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.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of savings and investments from one country to another, i.e. international finance …
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taxation on labor supply and savings; corrective taxes for externalities; taxation and corporate behavior; and tax expenditure …
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examine the incidence of the introduction in 1988 of tax incentives to retirement savings on contributions to pension funds … and on savings. We first identify the population cohorts who most used these incentives. Then we use data on the evolution …
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rates in broad occupational categories in Pakistan. The method used controls for average gender differences in these …
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Presented at a workshop at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, this document explores the logistical solutions deployed within contemporary Hawala-style value transmission systems. It suggests that those frustrated by the lack of an effective global payments system for retial...
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This study examines the market entry practices of Australian and Pakistani Information and Communication Technology (ICT) firms and the proposition that Local Software Economy (LSE) maturity affects the selection of market entry practices. The question is significant as it is focused on an...
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