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, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
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, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838234
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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This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
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educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parents' risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our … children's enrollment in upper secondary school." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
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educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parents' risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our … children's enrollment in upper secondary school." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592270
"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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, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …
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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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, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537108