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Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2018

that provide a lower limit of results for welfare changes, optimal policies and two optimal tax components (Pigouvian and …

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The impact of anti-congestion policies and the role of labor-supply margins

Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2018 - This version: October 22, 2018

that provide a lower limit of results for welfare changes, optimal policies and two optimal tax components (Pigouvian and …

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Why not to choose the most convenient labor supply model? : an analysis of the consequences of different labor supply modeling approaches for policy evaluation

Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2015

The public economics, environmental, transportation and urban economics literature applies different labor supply approaches when studying economic or planning instruments. Some studies assume that working hours are endogenous while the number of workdays is given, whereas others model only...

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The Effects of Transfer into Fiscality Prices

Ciumag, Marin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

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The job guarantee: Design, jobs, and implementation

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The job guarantee (JG) is a public option for jobs. It is a permanent, federally funded, and locally administered program that supplies voluntary employment opportunities on demand for all who are ready and willing to work at a living wage. While it is first and foremost a jobs program, it has...

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Rolling back the public sector : differential effects on employment, investment and growth

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Trade-Offs in Means Tested Pension Design

Tran, Chung - 2011

Inclusion of means testing into age pension programs allows governments to better direct benefits to those most in need and to control funding costs by providing flexibility to control the participation rate (extensive margin) and the benefit level (intensive margin). The former is aimed at...

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Intertemporal Substitution in Consumption Revisited

Hu, Zuliu - 2006

Some of the highly controversial questions in macroeconomics critically hinge on the value of a single parameter of consumer preference--the elasticity of intertemporal substitution. This paper provides new estimates of this parameter for individual G-7 and a panel of twenty OECD countries. We...

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Multiplier Effects of Federal Disaster-Relief Spending : Evidence from U.S. States and Households

Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017

Can government spending have a large effect on private consumption and income? This paper uses a novel dataset on federal government disaster-relief spending, combined with both household and state-level consumption, income and employment data, to answer this question. My estimates show that the...

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Debt Relief and Slow Recovery : A Decade after Lehman

Piskorski, Tomasz - 2019

We follow a representative panel of millions of consumers in the U.S. from 2007 to 2017 and document several facts on the long-term effects of the Great Recession. There were about six million foreclosures in the ten-year period after Lehman's collapse. Owners of multiple homes accounted for 25%...

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