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Pro‐Market Economic Reforms and Resource Curse: Do Initial Conditions Matter?
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The quality of economic institutions plays a crucial role in enhancing a country's economic performance, leading international organisations to recommend pro‐market institutional reforms as a strategy to support economic development. This paper investigates how the natural resource curse affects pro‐market reforms, analysing a sample of 90 ...
Isaac Amedanou, Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado
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The Heterogeneous Impact of Children on Maternal Employment: Evidence From East and West Germany
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the causal effect of fertility on female labour market outcomes in East and West Germany. We use twin births as an exogenous variation for family size. Our results suggest a negative relationship between the number of children and maternal labour market outcomes.
Johannes Köckeis, Sven Stöwhase
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Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the distributive effects of personal income taxation in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. We estimate the evolution of marginal and average effective tax rates across the income distribution and calculate the corresponding indices of progressivity and ...
Sara Torregrosa‐Hetland, Oriol Sabaté
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, 2013 In the modern everyday life the public finance plays the main role in the world of finance and therefore, its efficient management and transparency is becoming a crucial component for the prosperity and well-being of each particular country. In turn, a cornerstone of the public finance is taxation and, therefore, for each individual it is essential to ...
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Financing Professional Sports Facilities [PDF]
This paper examines public financing of professional sports facilities with a focus on both early and recent developments in taxpayer subsidization of spectator sports.
Robert A. Baade, Victor A. Matheson
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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THE EFFECT OF TAX MORALITY, TAX CULTURE, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE TO TAXPAYERS COMPLIANCE
, 2018 Indar Khaerunnisa +2 more
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Managed decline: Muddling through with the Sterling (dis)Agreements, 1968–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract How do policymakers manage the decline of an international currency? This paper revisits the view that the ‘Sterling Agreements’ of 1968–74 – bilateral contracts between the UK and sterling‐holding governments – marked a successful paradigm shift towards sterling's managed ‘retirement’.
Alan de Bromhead +3 more
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The commercialization of labour markets: Evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper moves beyond the focus on ‘average’ wage trends in pre‐industrial economies by examining the broad diversity of pay rates and forms of remuneration across occupations and regions in medieval England. We find that whilst some workers enjoyed substantial growth in wage rates after the Black Death, there was a large group who ...
Jordan Claridge +2 more
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