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Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. We use the estimated parameters to calculate elasticities and to simulate the effects...
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transaction such as output or income and a subsidy to a different market transaction that is a clean alternative to pollution. It … each tax and subsidy in a general equilibrium model with other tax distortions, and we compare these to the rates in a … first-best model. The tax-subsidy combination is explained in terms of a tax effect, an environmental effect, and a revenue …
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Because of difficulties measuring pollution, many prior papers suggest a subsidy to some observable method of reducing … make an additional important point. In each case, we show that welfare under the suggested subsidy can be increased by the … addition of an output tax. While the suggested subsidy reduces damage per unit of output, it also decreases the firm's cost of …
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combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption … that all production uses a dirty technology or all consumption goods become waste. The environmental subsidy is then … usefulness of the tax-subsidy combination, we review conceptual considerations regarding its implementation and practical …
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
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It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
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The global financial crisis which erupted in the United States instantaneously swept across Europe. Like the United States, the European Monetary Union (EMU) was ripe for a crash. It had its own real estate bubble, specifically in Ireland and Spain, indulged in excessive deficit spending,...
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This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...
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The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
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Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
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