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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
8276 Etienne Lehmann
Claudio Lucifora
Simone Moriconi
Bruno Van der Linden
Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule increases employment. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 1-36.)
E24, H22, J68
8275 Yuri Andrienko
Patricia Apps
Ray Rees
Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003)
H21, H24, D31, D63
8274 Carol Corrado
Jonathan Haskel
Cecilia Jona-Lasinio
Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (4), 592 - 618)
O47, E22, E01
8270 Sarmistha Pal
Bibhas Saha
In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we ...
(published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785)
H44, I22
8269 Silvia Mendolia
Ian Walker
The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43 , 47-65)
I10, I21
8268 Pedro Maia Gomes
Zoë Kuehn
Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the ...
(Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 26 , pp. 164-179. )
J24, J45, E24, H30, O11
8266 Marianne Bertrand
Sandra E. Black
Sissel Jensen
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 191-239)
J1, J3
8265 Gordon B. Dahl
Andreas Ravndal Kostøl
Magne Mogstad
Family Welfare Cultures
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752)
I38, J62, H53
8264 Helmuth Cremer
Kerstin Roeder
Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124, 392-395)
Dl, D7, D9
8263 Thomas Dohmen
Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions
In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 71-85)
J00, J01, D03
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