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Environmental Tax Reform in a Small Open Economy with Structural Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
-tradable sector and features unemployment in general equilibrium. Firms in both sectors use labour and an imported polluting factor of … production (”energy”). A tax on energy, recycled to reduce the payroll tax, will in general affect equilibrium unemployment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644594
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Swemming with the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap.
Edin, P.A.; Richardson, K. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479126
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Payroll Taxation, Unemployment and Skill Formation
Bergstrom, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
the potential effects of altered payroll taxes on unemployment by using a general equilibrium model with wage bargaining …, or to have any major impact on overall unemployment. However, increasing the progressiveness of the payroll tax could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669563
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Moral, The Informal Sector, and Unemployment.
Kolm, A.S.; Larsen, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634510
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Wages, Unemployment, and the Underground Economy.
Kolm, A.S.; Larsen, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634560
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A Model of Union Formation
Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
In an analysis of the formation of unions within a single firm, this paper addresses conditions under which encompassing unions form. It is shown that a production function satisfying decreasing marginal productivity leads to the formation of encompassing unions. This result holds for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419211
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A Model of Union Formation.
Westermark, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
In an analysis of the formation of unions within a single firm, this paper addresses conditions under which encompassing unions form. It is shown that a production function satisfying decreasing marginal productivity leads to the formation of encompassing unions. This result holds for different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779782
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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005
theoretical model we interpret this as evidence of union bargaining power. Unemployment benefits have substantial effects on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642494
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Swimming With the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap
Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women’s wages have varied over time and have had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644580
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Payroll Taxation, Unemployment and Skill Formation
Bergström, Pål - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
the potential effects of altered payroll taxes on unemployment by using a general equilibrium model with wage bargaining …, or to have any major impact on overall unemployment. However, increasing the progressiveness of the payroll tax could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644607