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Equity in the Provision of Long-Term Care: a Comparison of Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Osterle, A. - European Forum, European University Institute - 1999
The objective of this paper is to analyse how different countries approach the objective of equity in the provision of … equity, justice or equality, theyr are even at the core of these definitions. Equity is widely accepted as an objective in … social policy. And equity is an attractive label in social policy making. However, apart from a basic agreement on equity as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671838
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Tax professionals' view of the Spanish tax system: efficiency, equity and tax planning
Durán-Cabré, José Mª; Esteller-Moré, Alejandro - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2014
The design of a tax system is a daunting task. Economies have become increasingly complex, which makes the design of taxes has to take into account behavioral taxpayers' responses - including mobility -, but also tax planning issues. Additionally, increasing inequality trends put more pressure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752426
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Taxation, Social Welfare and Labour Market Regulation: Complements or Substitutes? An Industrial Relations Perspective on the 'Five Economists' Plan.
Gahan, P.; Barbara, J. - The University of New South Wales. Department of … - 1999
Shortly after the re-election of the Howard government in October 1998 a group of five prominent economists proposed a plan to 'cut the jobless rate' in an open letter addresses to the Prime Minister (The Australian, October 26 1998). This article seeks to critically consider the economist's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256220
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Inducing human capital formation: Migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292740
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Inducing human capital formation : migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725024
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Inducing human capital formation : migration as a substitute for subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001594094
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Inducing Human Capital Formation: Migration as a Substitute for Subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764230
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Addition through Depletion: The Brain Drain as a Catalyst of Human Capital Formation and Economic Betterment
Stark, Oded; Fan, C Simon - Royal Economic Society - RES - 2003
Enabling educated individuals to work abroad entails a brain drain and results in educated unemployment at home. Because the prospect of migration raises the expected returns to higher education it also facilitates a "brain gain": a eveloping economy ends up with a higher fraction of educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005577160
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Inequality and Redistribution.
Moene, K.O.; Wallerstein, M. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998
In this paper, we develop the implications of the view of welfare policies as publicly financed insurance policies that pay benefits relative to contributions in a redistributive manner. With the majority of voters having both redistributive and insurance motives for supporting welfare spending,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652262
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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