collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related … between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining agreement or firm-level contract and employment growth of about one … percentage point per annum. However, the correlation between employment growth and collective bargaining is not robust to the use …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. -- Employment ; trade union …

earnings-related benefits is thus characterised by higher employment than one with flat-rate benefits. It is investigated under …

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment … profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are constant. This reversal of employment effects occurs because the shift in …, the predicted employment consequences of changes in the tax structure depend on assumptions about the time-horizon and …

efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift from a payroll tax to a VAT will increase employment if the rise in … neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment …

bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per year. Evidence is, however, mostly related to Anglo … employment growth in German plants. We find a robust and negative correlation between being covered by a sector-wide bargaining … agreement or firmlevel contract and employment growth per annum of about 0.8 percentage points. Using various approaches …