The role of subsidies for exports: Evidence for Portuguese manufacturing firms [PDF]
Using a longitudinal database (1996-2003) at the plant level, this paper aims to shed light on the causal nexus between production-related subsidies and exports, in Portugal.
Armando Silva
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Take-Up Rates and Trade Offs After the Age of Entitlement: Some Thoughts and Empirical Evidence for Child Care Subsidies [PDF]
In this paper we develop a model of an eligible family's decision to take or not to take child care subsidies. This decision depends on the net benefits the family expects to derive from the subsidies over their expected duration.
Ann Dryden Witte, Magaly Queralt
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Walmart On Tax Day: How Taxpayers Subsidize America's Biggest Employer and Richest Family [PDF]
, 2014 This report finds that the American public is providing enormous tax breaks and tax subsidies to Walmart and the Walton family, further boosting corporate profits and the family's already massive wealth at everyone else's expense.
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Economics of export subsidies under costly and imperfect enforcement [PDF]
The present paper builds on the published literature on agricultural policy analysis under costly and imperfect enforcement by introducing enforcement costs and misrepresentation into the economic analysis of export subsidies.
Giannakas, Konstantinos
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A Framework for Analyzing Tariffs and Subsidies in Water Provision to Urban Households in Developing Countries [PDF]
This paper aims to present a basic conceptual framework for understanding the main practical issues and challenges relating to tariffs and subsidies in the water sector in developing countries.
David le Blanc
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The Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Budget Cost of the Czech Supporting and Guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund [PDF]
The paper analyzes the government budget cost of credit guarantees and subsidies. The analysis is done both in a general qualitative manner and quantitatively for the case of Czech Supporting and Guarantee Agricultural and Forestry Fund (SGAFF).
Karel Janda
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Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport : what do we mean, what can be done? [PDF]
Subsidy policies on public urban transport have been adopted ubiquitously. In both developed and developing countries, subsidies are implemented to make transport more affordable.
Estupinan, Nicolas +3 more
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Private Participation in the Control of Public Spending - The Multi-Level Subsidy Regimes [PDF]
This paper presents a brief outline of conditions and possibilities for the involvement of private actors in the multi-level system of subsidies regulation.
Herwig Hofmann
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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? Evidence from two natural experiments [PDF]
We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany. Using a natural experiment, our first set of estimates is based on a legal change extending the group of eligible unemployed persons.
Ammermüller, Andreas +3 more
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EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM IN COLOMBIA: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE [PDF]
This article presents an evaluation of an ambitious health reform implemented in Colombia during the first half of the nineties. The reform attempted to radically change public provision of health services, by means of the transformation of subsidies to ...
Alejandro Gaviria +2 more
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