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Beyond national institutions : labor taxes and regional unemployment in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2001
By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labor taxes and unemployment varies … stronger in the highly industrialized North than in the under-developed South, where unemployment is much higher. An important … source of variation in the regional responsiveness of unemployment originates from the fact that regional gross wages in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397928
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Beyond National Institutions : Labor Taxes and Regional Unemployment in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Lupi, Claudio; Ordine, Patrizia; … - 2003
By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labour taxes and unemployment varies … stronger in the highly industrialised North than in the underdeveloped South, where unemployment is much higher. An important … source of variation in the regional responsiveness of unemployment originates from the fact that regional gross wages in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134450
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Effective corporate taxation, tax incidence and tax reforms : evidence from OECD countries
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Nicodème, Gae͏̈tan J. A.; … - 2014 - This version: October 2014
The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418228
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Effective Corporate Taxation, Tax Incidence and Tax Reforms : Evidence from OECD Countries
Barrios, Salvador - 2014
The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044657
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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003
The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507980
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Skewness, Tax Progression, and Demand for Redistribution : Evidence from the UK
Pogorelskiy, Kirill - 2018
We introduce a skewness-based approach to measure tax progression and demand for redistribution. We provide a political economy foundation for a novel measure of skewness by expressing key properties of the classical model of voting over income redistribution (Meltzer and Richard, 1981) and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934159
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Rebalancing unemployment benefits in a unionized labour market
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997
The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two … utility of union members can reduce unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536221
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Rebalancing Unemployment Benefits in a Unionized Labor Market
Hansen, Claus Thustrup; Whitta-Jacobsen, Hans Jørgen - 1997
The basic trade union model is extended to allow for a more sophisticated unemployment benefit system consisting of two … utility of union members can reduce unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085940
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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968-2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570586
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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity : Sweden, 1968 - 2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968 - 2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548125