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The growth effects of corporate and personal tax rates in the OECD
Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard; Sanz, Ismael - 2011
Recent aggregate tests of the impact of taxes on long-run growth rates in the OECD countries remain vulnerable to two important criticisms. First, they typically use 'an aggregate average rate, or constructed marginal rate, that probably does not affect the rate that any particular economic...
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CURRENT ACCOUNT ADJUSTMENTS IN SELECTED TRANSITION COUNTRIES
Aristovnik, Aleksander - 2006
The paper investigates sharp reductions seen in current account deficits in selected transition countries in the 1992- 2003 period. The analysis focuses on three important aspects of these current account reversals: a) to examine those factors that might have triggered the reversals and to...
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Short-term forecasting for empirical economists : a survey of the recently proposed algorithms
Camacho, Máximo; Pérez Quirós, Gabriel; Poncela … - 2013
Incluye bibliografía ; En muchos casos, los profesionales de la predicción económica no utilizan los resultados de la investigación econométrica porque esta no se realiza de forma apropiada para su implementación práctica. Este documento intenta cerrar ese hueco que existe entre la...
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The output effects of tax changes : narrative evidence from Spain
Gil, Paula; Martí Esteve, Francisco; Morris, Richard; … - 2017
En este artículo estimamos el efecto sobre el PIB de los cambios impositivos a partir de una base datos narrativa que hemos construido para el periodo 1986-2015. La estimación base muestra que un aumento de los impuestos equivalente al 1 % del PIB reduce el producto un 1,3 % después de un...
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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …
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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.
Akers, Allen - 2010
Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.
Busso, Matias - 2008
properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …
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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment
Boudreau, James W. - 2008
Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Dual employment protection legislation : a framework for analysis
Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2005
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of improving their employability. Well-known examples are the...
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