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saving programme rather than as a tax-and-transfer system, thereby raising labour force participation rates but also …
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wages, assume that a higher employee-borne tax burden reduces effort. In turn, this raises a firm's production costs and … reduces efficiency. Accordingly, we show that a higher employee-borne income tax negatively influences a multinational …'s profit by reducing manager effort. Furthermore, we compile data on personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year …
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personal income tax profiles for 49 economies and the year 2002. In particular, we determine the component of labor taxes which …, we calculate the progressivity of personal income tax rates between the average wage and five times the average wage …. This may be interpreted as the tax progression which is relevant for well-paid workers. Then, we use the personal income …
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In this paper we examine financial interactions between tiers of government. Whilst most existing empirical evidence has focused on the US, it is difficult to generalize conclusions obtained to countries where the position and remit of lower tiers of government is evolving or is less clear...
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-material values over material things. We incorporate this notion into a simple tax model for a small open economy. We show that a … postmaterialism are developed from the World Values Surveys. Their impact on the tax mix is highly significant and goes into the …
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We investigate the existence of Granger-causality between current account and government budget balances over the period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific...
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This paper presents empirical evidence against the popular perception that macro volatility is exogenous. We obtain tax … rates without affecting the first moment. Exploiting heterogeneity patterns in a panel of OECD countries, we estimate tax …
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We study sovereign bond yields in OECD countries with a dynamic panel by checking for cross-section dependence; assessing panel cointegration; and estimating panel error-correction models. The results show that markets consider budgetary and external imbalances and inflation as relevant...
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This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on profits using panel data for 19 high-income OECD countries during the period 1975-1999. We estimate a profit equation in which profits depend on a set of fiscal variables. Our empirical method is based on a consistent treatment of the...
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determinants, we resort to simulation and bootstrap methods for the analysis. Results based on the Common Correlated Effect …
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