Only one-fifth of respondents to a rider on the University of Michigan Survey Research Center’s Monthly Survey said that the 2008 tax rebates would lead them to mostly increase spending. Almost half said the rebate would mostly lead them to pay off debt, while about a third saying it would lead them mostly to save more. The survey responses imply that the aggregate propensity to spend from the ...

The effect of distance from the city centre on selling price, tax assessment and gross income is investigated for income property in proximity to the city centre. Hedonic estimation with a multiplicative model specii cation is used to estimate the relationship between property characteristics on the one hand and price, assessment and income on the other. The sample consists of centrally located...

BACKGROUND National disparities in asbestos use will likely lead to an unequal burden of asbestos diseases. OBJECTIVES As economic status may be linked to asbestos use, we assessed, globally, the relationship between indicators of national economic development and asbestos use. METHODS For the 135 countries that have ever used asbestos, per capita asbestos use (kilograms per capita per year...

This paper examines the link between the health indicators and the environmental variables for a cross-section of countries widely dispersed on the economic development spectrum. While environment and income are seen to have an inverted-U shaped relationship (Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis), it is also well established that environment and health are positively related. Our study ...

General practitioners are unlikely to receive the exact level of remuneration recommended in the 16th report of the doctors' and dentists' review body' even if the level was accepted in full by the government and implemented from 1 April. This alarming sounding position is so because general practitioners' remuneration is a series of fees and allowances designed to produce an average income acr...

This paper uses a panel of individual tax returns and the ‘bracket creep’ as source of tax rate variation to construct instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax schedule was fixed in nominal terms while inflation was high (around 10%). This produced a real change in tax rate schedules. Taxpayers near the top-end o...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide threat to public health, but the dimension of the problem is probably not fully appreciated. There are ∼1.8 million people in the world who are alive simply because they have access to one form or another of renal replacement therapy [1]. Ninety percent of those live in high-income countries, where the average gross income is in excess of US $10000 pe...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to assess the effect on general practitioners' income, and the amount of any copayment required for GPs to recoup lost income, of two policies (individually and combined) proposed by the Australian Government: a continued indexation freeze of Medicare schedule fees; and a $5 rebate reduction (now retracted). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Analysis of data from the Better...

Computer games are becoming the default entertainment medium of the XXI century. Fueled by an expanding market which is close to the gross income of Hollywood blockbusters, and ubiquitous in our technological world, via the mobile phone, the game console, or the PC, computer games are also reshaping the ways we understand the old art of narration. In this paper I will present an approach to pos...

The South African sugar industry remains under pressure to increase sugarcane supply to mills, many of which operate below optimal capacity. One opportunity for the industry, that of significant spatial expansion, lies in small grower, communally-owned areas where much of the land is suited to sugarcane production. Extensive investment capital has been channeled into small grower projects with ...