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This paper studies the impact of inflation on income taxes in Sweden, the UK, and the United States during the world wars. As tax reforms were rising top marginal rates and reducing exemption thresholds, extraordinary levels of inflation eroded the real value of exemptions, brackets, and deductions. The micro-simulation of actual and alternative scenarios shows that inflation made the tax less pro

Objectives: To examine the accessibility and quality of drug company payment data in Europe.Design: Comparative policy review of payment data in countries with different regulatory approaches to disclosure.Setting; 37 European countries.Participants: European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, its trade group and their drug company members; eurosfordocs.eu, an independent da

The purpose with this diploma work is to find solutions that facilitate the manual demining process by designing tools and equipment used by manual deminers. Manual demining is a part of humanitarian demining that has been neglected for a long time even though its a vital part of mine action programs around the world and very important for humanitarian demining in general. The main idea is to prov

This paper examines the income differentials and characteristics relevant to the labour market of East-West migrants, West Germans and East-German stayers in Germany in 2006. This is done by using descriptive statistics as well as regression models based on the Human Capital theory by Becker and Mincer. The data used in this paper comes from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) of the German Institute

This thesis investigates the role states play in promoting and directing a country’s development. More specifically, it is examined, which factors determine differences in state performance and why different types of states form. This is done through a comparative case study of Botswana and Zambia, two southern African countries that after a similar start into independence developed very different

Det är i mötet – idag framför allt det medierade mötet – mellan journalisten och politikern som nyheter om politik uppstår och som vi medborgare bygger merparten av våra uppfattningar om politiken kring. Som en ingrediens i detta möte kan medieträning ha betydelse för vad som sker och sägs. Medieträning som bruk och verktyg är dock ömsom ifrågasatt och kritiserat, ömsom förklarat som nödvändigt i

Improving an inhalation device so that the patient has full control of his health status, is the #1 objective of the project. Being a futuristic project, carried out from a patien's prespective, the ambition is still to perform a realistic industrial design assignment. The project concentrates on aesthetical qualities, as well as matching them with the fundamental functions of the device. Th

The purpose of this thesis was to examine how fasteners for mobile phone housing in metal sheet could be designed. The assignment was defined by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication and the work was done in close cooperation with them. Sony Ericsson has had metal in their covers before but only as a cosmetic layer, the bearing parts have been made in moulded plastic. The reason to make a cover where

This Master Thesis was carried out in cooperation with BAE Systems Hägglunds in Örnsköldsvik and its purpose is to improve the efficiency of the hydraulic system for the cooling fan drive in the track driven military vehicle BvS10. The efficiency of the pump and motors are summarized using data from the subcontractors and the efficiency of the pipe line system is derived using Bernoulli’s formula