Most people in the United States purchase health insurance through their employer due to the tax subsidy on employer-provided health insurance premiums. A large literature has developed that looks at impact of reductions in this tax subsidy. Recent papers tend to focus on changes in offers, eligibility, and take-up as a result of changes in the tax subsidy. One might consider these as changes a...

The open-plan office is a layout used in government offices in Brazil aimed at saving on space occupied and integrating employees. However, the design of these work-stations must follow the characteristics of tasks and their interrelationships, since adverse physical and organizational conditions may have a negative impact on work productivity. From this perspective, this study sought to identi...

malaysia, as a small and developing country, must reduce carbon emissions because the country is one of the top co2-emitting countries in the asean region. therefore, the current study implements two environmental tax policies; carbon and energy taxes, in order to examine the impacts of these policies on the reduction of carbon emission in the whole of the economy by applying a computable gener...

I, Bomo Edith Edna Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, hereby publish the White Paper on the National Environmental Management of the Ocean, as set out in the schedule hereto. The White Paper will also be available on the Department's website at www,environment.gov.za. Copies of the English version of the White Paper are available at the offices of the Department's Oceans and C...

Agent based models are proposed as an adequate tool for analysing tax payer decisions and, thereby, the consequences of such decisions as they manifest themselves at the macro level. TAXSIM models the conduct of agents of three types, i.e. employers, employees and the government, in an economy of a single sector. Using this model, we examine the conduct of each individual agent and the impact o...

Purpose User-centred intelligent buildings (IBs) should respond to users’ needs holistically and the demand for end user applications is steadily growing. The purpose of this study answer: What are applications, what they be called, their key features? Design/methodology/approach This a mixed-method study. authors have used different data sources, such as online research interviews. In processi...