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determined by the overall unemployment rate. It is argued both on analytical and numerical grounds that the second alternative is …
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the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …
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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...
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Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …
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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...
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-tradable sector and features unemployment in general equilibrium. Firms in both sectors use labour and an imported polluting factor of … production (energy). A tax on energy, recycled to reduce the payroll tax, will in general affect equilibrium unemployment in this …
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energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue … production. The resulting reduction in unemployment is welfare increasing since energy, which the country has to buy at its true …
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-moderating (wage-increasing) effect so that there is a negative (positive) effect on equilibrium unemployment. Higher tax progression …
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-moderating (wageincreasing) effect so that there is a negative (positive) effect on equilibrium unemployment. Higher tax progression, to keep the …
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