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Political competition and economic policy: Empirical evidence from Pakistan
Chaudhry, Ahmed; Mazhar, Ummad - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-1, pp. 1-27
political competition and estimate its impact on economic policy. Contrary to popular conceptions about Pakistan's economy, they … as well as subnational levels in Pakistan and withstands a number of robustness tests. … and economic prosperity remains. Perhaps, one way to attain this objective is by increasing political competition. This …
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Political competition and economic performance : empirical evidence from Pakistan
Chaudhry, Ahmed; Mazhar, Ummad - 2018
political competition and estimate its impact on economic performance. Contrary to popular conceptions about Pakistan's economic … holds at national as well as subnational levels in Pakistan and withstands a number of robustness tests. … and economic prosperity remains. Perhaps, one way to attain this objective is by increasing political competition. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011809880
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Endogenous growth in a model with heterogeneous agents and voting on public goods
Borissov, Kirill; Surkov, Alexander - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2010
We consider a Barro-type endogenous growth model in which the government's purchases of goods and services enter into the production function. The provision of government services is financed by flat-rate (linear) income or lump-sum taxes. It is assumed that individuals differing in their...
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Is Belgium "Making Work Pay" ?
Orsini, Kristian - In: Brussels Economic Review 50 (2007) 2, pp. 193-220
In the period 2001-2004 two major reforms followed in Belgium: a personal income tax reform which included a new tax credit on low earnings (2001) and a reform of social security contributions for low wage employees (2004). Using a discrete hours labor supply model, this paper assesses the...
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Should Japanese Tax System Be More Progressive?
Bessho, Shun-ichiro; Hayashi, Masayoshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2011
We investigate the effects of marginal changes of marginal tax rates of Japanese income tax system, computing the social marginal costs of public funds (SMCF) generated by marginal increase in tax rates. We use large micro data sets on Japanese households, and estimate a structural discrete...
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Validation of structural labor supply model by the elasticity of taxable income
Thoresen, Thor O.; Vattø, Trine E. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
Given that structural labor supply models continue to play a key role in the process of policy design, it is important to validate their capacity to provide reasonable predictions of alternative hypothetical policy options. Comparing outcomes before and after a realized policy change (such as a...
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
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Capital Income Taxation and the Mirrlees Review
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Mirrlees Review of the UK tax system, together with its companion volume of research papers, can be expected to influence future discussions of tax reform. Indeed, this can already be recognised in the Henry Review. As far as income taxation is concerned, the most substantive recommendation...
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction of second earner wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in...
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877775