On September 30, 2003, existing hazardous waste combustors (HWCs) began operating under the HWC Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards. The HWC MACT standards include recordkeeping and reporting requirements that are typically more extensive than previous facility requirements. Facilities are required to keep detailed records of items such as emission exceedances, startups, shut...

Early Life Adversity and Children’s Competence Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate that organic and psychosocial risk...

By improving employee satisfaction and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the employees improve the core competence of enterprises has become one of the important factors, this article through to ningbo home and foreign trade enterprise employee satisfaction survey, the empirical analysis of the influence factors of employee satisfaction, and puts forward relevant suggestions.

We study the optimal combination of corporate tax rate and tax base in a model of a small open economy with heterogeneous firms. We show that it is optimal for the small country’s government to effectively subsidize capital inputs by granting a tax allowance in excess of the true costs of capital. Economic integration reduces the optimal capital subsidy and drives low-productivity firms from th...

Based on Helpman et al. (2004) we propose a simple two-country (Home and Foreign) model with heterogeneous firms to capture the role of FDI via utilizing time zone differences. Two countries are located in different time zones and there is no overlap in daily working hours. It will be shown that productivities of the firms undertaking FDI are higher than the productivities of non-FDI f i r m s ...

Using CHNS dataset from the 2004 to 2009, we will study time choices by mothers who have children aged below 6 years old. We estimate a five-equation system in which the dependent variables are the minutes used in home production, active leisure, market work, child care-giving and sleeping. The results based on the pooled individual observations suggest that childcare is distinct from both leis...

In contrast to domestic trade, international trade inherently requires more intensive use of skilled labor with expertise in areas such as international business, language skills, and maritime insurance, and the transoceanic transportation is more capital intensive than the local transportation. In the presence of such bias in factor demands, globalization caused by an improvement in the export...

The issue of the interaction between trade and labor mobility has become a major topic in the context of economic integration and trade liberalization. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of international labor mobility from the standpoint of new developments in trade theory, by asking the following question: does trade liberalization result in the substitution or complem...

Public finance experts have long explored the issue of income taxes making the cost of market transactions higher than nonmarket ones. A 50 percent income tax, for example, requires $20,000 in income to purchase $10,000 of market goods. The tax can be avoided, however, if the same goods can be produced at home. The upshot is that income taxes encourage the home production of goods and services ...