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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option
Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097484
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Labour taxation and employment in trade union models: A partial survey
Koskela, Erkki - Suomen Pankki - 2001
This paper uses a union bargaining framework, where the wage rate is negotiated between the representatives of employees and employers and firms unilaterally determine employment, to discuss the relationship between labour taxation and employment. In imperfectly competitive labour markets higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648942
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Green Tax Reform and Employment: The Interaction of Profit and Factor Taxes
Boeters, Stefan - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 60 (2004) 2, pp. 222-222
the level of the profit tax. The question of whether there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764464
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Green tax reform and employment: the interaction of profit and factor taxes
Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097536
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Unions, Labour supply and Structure of Taxation: Equal Tax Bases
Kiander, Jaakko; Holm, Pasi; Koskela, Erkki - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1995
This paper investigates the employment effects of changes in the structure of taxation and in the tax progression. The contribution is to add endogenous determination of working hours into a union wage setting model. Thus employment effects of any changes in taxation are derived as a labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545833
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Labour Taxation and Employment in Trade Union Models: A Partial Survey.
Koskela, E. - 2001
This paper uses a union bargaining framework, where the wage rate is negotiated between the representatives of employees and employers and firms unilaterally determine employment, to discuss the relationship between labour taxation and employment.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474804
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On Substituting Consumption Taxes for Unemployment Insurance Contributions to Reduce Unemployment
Kögel, Tomas - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2005
18 September 2005 to reduce the unemployment insurance contributions by 2 percent and to finance this with an increase in … tax reform does not reduce unemployment; neither in the short to medium run, nor in the long run. When there is short …-to-medium-run real wage resistance, then in the short to medium run unemployment depends on the overall tax burden, but not on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125112
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Subsidising Education with Unionised Labour Markets
Wöhlbier, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
It is well known from the literature that a unionisation of labour markets leads to an increase in wages and a decrease in employment. However, in these models human capital formation is usually taken as given. This paper internalises the education decision and shows that a unionisation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518248
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Taxation, Unemployment and Growth: Dynamic Welfare Effects of "Green" Policies
Bye, Brita - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1996
setting, and a fixed exchange rate implies wage rigidity and involuntary unemployment. The long run effects on instantaneous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980700
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Rust Belt Politics: The national NAFTA debate during recent US presidential election cycles
Tanoos, James - In: Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research 3 (2012) 1, pp. 184-194
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) once again became a newsworthy topic in the US media, this time during the contested Spring 2008 Democratic primary for the US presidency, particularly from campaign talking-points originating within Midwestern Rust-Belt states. Although the merits...
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