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Tax reform in Europe over the next decades
Lutz, Christin; Lehr, Ulrike - 2010
Study for the European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen "Tax reform in Europe over the next decades: implication for …
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Study for the European environmental agency, Copenhagen : “tax reform in Europe over the next decades ; implication for the environment, for eco-innovation and for household distri...
Lehr, Ulrike; Lutz, Christian; Salmons, Roger - 2010
Study for the European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen Tax reform in Europe over the next decades: implication for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985626
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Assessing the value of future accessions to the WTO Agreement on Gouvenement Procurement (GPA): Some new data sources, provisional estimates, and an evaluative framework for indivi...
Anderson, Robert D.; Pelletier, Philippe; Osei-Lah, Kodjo; … - 2011
The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to...
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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors put forward five related principles, building upon the important work on related issues that has been done by the OECD, the International Competition Network (ICN), UNCTAD and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326814
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Der Wachstumsbeitrag einer Senkung des Mehrwertsteuersatzes auf Hotelübernachtungen - Eine Simulationsrechnung
Mönnig, Anke; Wolter, Marc-Ingo - 2010
Mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz vom Dezember 2009 ist ein drittes Maßnahmenpaket in die Wege geleitet worden, mit dessen Hilfe die Folgen des Wirtschaftseinbruchs im Jahr 2009 abgefedert bzw. diesen entgegen gewirkt werden sollte. Die darin enthaltenen steuerlichen Sofortmaßnahmen...
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Civicness Drain
Casari, Marco; Ichino, Andrea; Michaeli, Moti; De … - 2018
Migration may cause not only a brain drain but also a civicness drain, leading to an uncivicness trap. We study this possibility using college choices of southern-Italian students classified as Civic if not cheating in a die-roll experiment. Local civicness is the fraction of Civic in their...
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The Income Elasticity of Child Labour: Do Cash Transfers Have an Impact on the Poorest Children?
Pellerano, Luca; Porreca, Eleonora; Rosati, Furio C. - 2018
The possible non linearity of the income elasticity of child labour has been at the centre of the debate regarding both … novel results. From a theoretical point of view, for any given transfer size, there is a critical level of household income … below which an increase in income has no impact on child labour and education. We estimate the causal impact of an increase …
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Work-family reconciliation policies and women's and mothers' labor market outcomes in rich democracies
Brady, David; Blome, Agnes; Kmec, Julie A. - 2018
Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family, and gender inequality....
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Old Europe's social model: A reason of low growth? The case of Germany
Siebert, Horst - 2006
This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...
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Locational competition: A neglected paradigm in the international division of labour
Siebert, Horst - 2005
Krugman's verdict that competitiveness of countries is a largely meaningless concept is a serious misjudgement of the economics profession. Countries compete for the mobile factors of production, most importantly for capital and technology. The exit-option of these factors and of firms changes...
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