This paper develops and applies a method for estimating the sensitivity of the Abstract size and distribution of benefits to changes in property tax circuit-breaker formulas. Distributions of housing values and rental values by income classes are calculated using available data. Based on these...

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...

We investigate performance differentials associated with mobility for research active scientists residing in a broad spectrum of countries and working in a broad spectrum of fields using data from the GlobSci survey. We distinguish between two categories of mobile scientists: (1) those studying...

We analyze the decisions of foreign-born PhD and postdoctoral trainees to come to the United States vs. go to another country for training. Data are drawn from the GlobSci survey of scientists in sixteen countries working in four fields. We find that individuals come to the U.S. to train because...

This paper explores the impact of several income tax policies on the acquisition of personal skills within the framework of a life-cycle model of human capital accumulation. The analysis considers the impact of taxes during both the early years of the life cycle when the individual allocates all...