Effort, Taxation and Unemployment

The importance of the design of the income tax system for the incentive to supply effort is considered for both a situation where firms (efficiency wage model) or unions (monopoly union model) have the power to determine wages. A tax reform raising marginal taxes at all income levels and increasing (decreasing) average taxes at high (low) income levels may lead to higher wages, lower employment and higher unemployment under either wage determination regime

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Year of publication:	1997
Authors:	Andersen, Torben M. ; Rasmussen, Bo Sandemann
Publisher:	[S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Theorie \| Theory \| Gewerkschaft \| Trade union \| Arbeitsangebot \| Labour supply \| Einkommensteuer \| Income tax \| Steuerprogression \| Progressive taxation

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (15 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments June 17, 1997 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.34784 [DOI]
Classification:	J41 - Contracts: Specific Human Capital, Matching Models, Efficiency Wage Models, and Internal Labor Markets ; J51 - Trade Unions: Objectives Structure, and Effects ; H22 - Incidence
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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