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Tax liability side equivalence in gift-exchange labor markets
Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2003
Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...
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Tax liability side equivalence in gift-exchange labor markets
Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001792774
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Monopsony power, income taxation and welfare
Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021
This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into profits. Monopsony power increases the tax...
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Monitoring and pay : an experiment on employee performance under endogenous supervision
Dittrich, Dennis; Kocher, Martin - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003392185
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Analyzing a flat income tax in the Netherlands
Jacobs, Bas; Mooij, Ruud A. de; Folmer, Cees - 2007
A flat tax rate on income has gained popularity in European countries. This paper assesses the attractiveness of such a flat tax in achieving redistributive objectives with the least cost to labour market performance. We do so by using a detailed applied general equilibrium model for the...
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Optimal government spending and unemployment
Linnemann, Ludger; Schabert, Andreas - 2008 - This version: February 29, 2008
We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374417
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Unemployment and search externalities in a model with heterogeneous jobs and heterogeneous workers
Gautier, Pieter - 1999 - This version: June, 25, 1999
The continuing deterioration of the position of low skilled workers in the beginning of the 90's in essentially all industrialized countries is one of the most debated issues in both labor and macro-economics. In this paper a matching model with low and high skilled workers and simple and...
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An experimental investigation of wage taxation and unemployment in closed and open economies
Riedl, Arno; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …
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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2016
minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …
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Time-varying degree of wage indexation and the New Keynesian Wage Phillips Curve
Attey, Jonathan A. - 2016
Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) coverage figures suggest a time variation in the degree of wage indexation. In spite of this observation, most current literature conveniently assume a constant degree of indexation as this variable is not directly observable. This study intends to empirically...
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