This paper estimates intertemporal labor supply responses to two-year long income tax holidays staggered across Swiss cantons. Cantons shifted from an income tax system based on the previous two ...years’ income to a standard annual pay as you earn system, leaving two years of income untaxed. We find significant but quantitatively very small responses of wage earnings with an intertemporal elasticity of 0.025 overall. High wage income earners and especially the self-employed display larger responses with elasticities around 0.1 and 0.25, respectively, most likely driven by tax avoidance. We find no effects along the extensive margin at all.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their ...children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations’ larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.
White Mother to a Dark Race takes the study of indigenous education and acculturation in new directions in its examination of the key roles white women played in these policies of indigenous child-removal. Government officials, missionaries, and reformers justified the removal of indigenous children in particularly gendered ways by focusing on the supposed deficiencies of indigenous mothers, the alleged barbarity of indigenous men, and the lack of a patriarchal nuclear family. Often they deemed white women the most appropriate agents to carry out these child-removal policies. Inspired by the maternalist movement of the era, many white women were eager to serve as surrogate mothers to indigenous children and maneuvered to influence public policy affecting indigenous people. Although some white women developed caring relationships with indigenous children and others became critical of government policies, many became hopelessly ensnared in this insidious colonial policy.
Chudamani is one of the inconspicuous writers in Indian literature who is gradually gaining prominence in the recent past. Chudamani’s works are powerful and sensitive unveiling the reality of human ...beings in society and their psychological aspects. This research article aims to analyse a novella and three short stories of R. Chudamani and inquires about the human emotions especially fear portrayed in those stories. The major focus of the article is on the novella, Yamini, and the minor focus is on the three short stories: “A Knock at the Door”, “The Strands of the Void” and “Drought”. Yamini is the story of a girl Yamini, who is forced into the institution of marriage. “A Knock at the Door” is the narrative of two widows who safeguard their sister’s son from his father. “The Strands of the Void” explores the system of dowry in Indian society. “Drought” is the story of a married woman who tries to escape from the torments of her husband. This paper also scrutinizes the fear in the protagonists and the central characters in the above works. It also inspects how fear transmogrifies the characters in different situations.
R. Chudamani was a much-admired Tamil creative writer in the recent past. She is known for her short stories. Chudamani's short stories deal with personal and public lives. The short story "We Don't ...Know" taken for this study deals with social issues in the society. It also reveals how women are oppressed in the androcentric society. The plot revolves around the protagonist, Abhirami who was abused by antagonist, Velappan. This paper focuses on Marxist feminism. Marxist feminism emerged between 1960s and 1970s. It centres on women's liberation which, it is assumed, can be achieved by the eradication of class difference and capitalism alone. This paper also aims to analyse the characters in the short story, We Don't Know which determine the Marxist feminist approach.
A Region of Legitimacies Leheny, David
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The nostalgia for a time when things seemed to work is hardly limited to Japan. It was central to Donald Trump's effort to win the White House, which was premised in ways both subtle and obvious on ...not just an earlier moment in the United States' economic leadership but also (and perhaps even more) on its racial hierarchies. If the long-term meaning of U.S. economic development in contemporary politics cannot simply be reduced to the liberal market economy represented in the "varieties of capitalism" literature, neither can the complex mix of public, private, political, and social forces of postwar Japan. Park Geun-hye's road back to South Korea's Blue House and Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos's political resurgence in recent years-both premised in wildly different ways on nostalgia for the leadership of their famous, authoritarian fathers-remind us that contemporary Asia also has a postwar past. This is not simply a set of events and decisions that create policy legacies but also the logics of development and power that allow for new possibilities in constructing political myths and affective social ties. T.J. Pempel's A Region of Regimes: Prosperity and Plunder in the Asia-Pacific will likely immediately become required reading for students of Asia's political economy, and it does not disappoint on that front. It demonstrates all the hallmarks of Pempel's superb scholarship over the past half-century. By categorizing many countries in the region as developmental regimes, ersatz developmental regimes, or rapacious regimes, Pempel shrewdly provides an expansive overview while inserting the conceptual language needed to tease out patterns of economic development, political coalition-building, and social policy negotiation.
Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. But for a time during the seventies, this "loud-mouthed, pushy little broad" with no college education was a prominent focal point ...of the American culture wars. In this book, Doreen J. Mattingly draws on Costanza's life to tell a wider, but heretofore neglected, story of the hopeful yet fraught era of gender politics in late 70s Washington - a history that is not just important to US women's and presidential history but which continues to resonate in politics today.
Since 2012, the Deportation Research Clinic, part of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University, has been pursuing research on government misconduct under the rubric of what ...Jacqueline Stevens calls "forensic intelligence." The Clinic uses law and publicity, including scholarship, to create new realities, which in turn produce new facts and knowledge. Stevens draws on scholarship by S. M. Amadae, Noam Chomsky, Philip Green, Chalmers Johnson, Kenneth Osgood, Ido Oren, Michael Rogin, and Frances Saunders to explain the relation of "forensic intelligence" to the "national intelligence" paradigm now organizing mainstream political science research. The article concludes by describing how U.S. government and economic elites distort research and teaching priorities, and provides examples from Northwestern University.
Driven by keen intellectual inquisitiveness, purpose, and conviction, Robert Raymond Sterling (1931-2010) dedicated his professional life to developing scholarship in accounting education, practice, ...and research. He did so with what his Australian intellectual counterpart and kindred spirit, Raymond John Chambers (1997, xvii ), described as a "sustained, but temperate, passion." The author's purpose is not to document Sterling's life, work, and academic career extensively, although, for the convenience of readers, we initially record his key appointments and achievements, as they provide an understanding of his scholarly legacy. A more extensive description of Sterling's life is given in the tribute rendered at his memorial service in Houston, Texas, on Jul 2, 2010. Instead, in this memorial, the authors seek to set forth and assess historically Sterling's intellectual contributions to accounting education and research. The authors believe they are profound and will be revisited by scholars of the future.
In their preface, the editors of this volume, called a fourth edition, state that it follows on from three previous volumes, published by different publishers in 1997, 2001, and 2006. All were edited ...by Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison, and Richard Robison, the three founding fathers of what is now called the ‘Murdoch School’. These volumes, together with several other books authored by Robison and Vedi Hadiz have together ‘challenged established literatures’ (p. v) on the economic development of Southeast Asia, especially those written by orthodox economists and political scientists whose research is broadly ‘comparative and institutional’. The reader learns in the editors' preface that the Murdoch School has rejected not just these approaches but also that of dependency theory and what might be broadly called the developmental state literature, pioneered in the case of Japan and Korea by the American political economists Chalmers Johnson and Alice Amsdem. These authors explained the rapid growth in Japan and the Republic of Korea in terms of insulated bureaucracies that were free to implement pro-growth policies without too much interference from vested interests. The Murdoch school rejects this approach in favour of one that has