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Oversupply of labor and other peculiarities of arts labor market

Popović, Milenko; Ratković, Kruna - 2013

There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...

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Experts' awards and economic success : evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Chapter 37 Philanthropy

Katz, Stanley N. - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 1299-1321). 2006

arts and culture, and when corporate philanthropy emerged in the 1950s it was also often aimed at the arts and culture. The … grants to the arts and culture; and the rising number of community and family foundations. American philanthropy is … historical tradition and legal framework has given rise to different forms of support for the arts and culture, with a greater …

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Property Tax Limits, Balanced Budget Rules, and Line-Item Vetoes : A Long-Run View

Dove, John A. - 2016

This paper explores the early development of three important fiscal institutions faced by U.S. state governments: property tax limits (PTLs), balanced budget rules (BBRs), and the gubernatorial line-item veto (LIV). Specifically, this study attempts to provide historical context for their...

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Chapter 13 Culture and Economic Development

Streeten, Paul - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 1, (pp. 399-412). 2006

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state

Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018

We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from …

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Tax Structure and Government Expenditures Under Tax Equity Norms

König, Tobias - 2013

We augment a standard tax model by concerns about tax equity: people get upset when labour is taxed more heavily than capital. Even the slightest concern for tax equity invalidates the common recommendation for small open economies that capital should remain tax-exempt. This holds for exogenous...

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Balanced budget government spending in a small open regional economy

Lecca, Patrizio; McGregor, Peter G.; Swales, John Kim - 2012

Scotland is engaged in a lively and on-going debate on greater fiscal autonomy and independence, which is politically controversial, especially in respect of tax-varying powers. The Scottish Parliament has the power to make a balanced-budget adjustment in public expenditure by varying the basic...

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Tax Enforcement, Public Spending and Tax Rates : Evidence From the Ghost Buildings Program

Rubolino, Enrico - 2020

Stricter tax enforcement can raise tax collections, finance public goods provision and lower the efficiency costs of raising taxes. We study these links in the context of the Ghost Buildings program: an anti-tax evasion policy that detected buildings not reported on land registry in Italy. Using...

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Reallocating Public Spending to Reduce Income Inequality : Can it Work?

Doumbia, Djeneba - 2019

Can a government reduce income inequality by changing the composition of public spending while keeping the total level of expenditure fixed? Using newly assembled data on spending composition for 83 countries across all income groups, this paper shows that reallocating spending toward social...

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