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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : what are the driving forces?

Boeters, Stefan - 2009

In labour markets with collective wage bargaining higher progressivity of the labour income tax creates a trade-off. On the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is distorted at the hours-of-work margin. The optimal level...

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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets : simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

Changing the income tax progressivity in labour markets with collective wage bargaining generates a trade-off. On the one hand, higher progressivity distorts individual labour supply decisions at the hours-of-work margin, on the other hand, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure...

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Energy poverty indicators : conceptual issues part I: the ten-percent-rule and double median/mean indicators

Schuessler, Rudolf - 2014

Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment … push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …

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Measuring fuel poverty : general considerations and application to German household data

Heindl, Peter - 2013

Fuel poverty may become an increasingly severe problem in developed countries in cases when real prices for fossil … fuels increase at high rates or when real energy prices increase due to policies for greenhouse gas abatement. Fuel poverty … measurement consists of two largely independent parts, firstly, the definition of an adequate fuel poverty line, and secondly, the …

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Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education

Poutvaara, Panu - 1999

We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...

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Taxation and unemployment : an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2002

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Green tax reform and employment : the interaction of profit and factor taxes

Boeters, Stefan - 2001

The employment effects of an ecological tax reform depend decisively on the presence of a profit tax and on the extent to which profits are taxed. This is shown in a model where firms have monopoly power on product markets and bargain over wages with unions on the labour market. In the setting,...

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Tax progressivity and the trade union's fallback-option

Boeters, Stefan - 2002

When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union's fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...

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The effect of electricity taxation on the German manufacturing sector : a regression discontinuity approach

Flues, Florens; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2015

Germany taxes electricity use since 1999. The government granted reduced rates to energy intensive firms in the industrial sector for addressing potentially adverse effects on firms' competitiveness. Firms that use more electricity than certain thresholds established by legislation, pay reduced...

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Environmental tax differentiation between industries and households - implications for efficiency and employment : a multi-sector intertemporal CGE analysis for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph - 2002

This paper investigates the economic impacts of environmental tax reforms designed to reach given emission reduction targets for the German economy. Our focus is on the efficiency and employment implications of alternative schemes for emission tax differentiation between the production sector...

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