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"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …
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"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...
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less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …
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This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
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, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …
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"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...
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, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …
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