Various taxes influence wage and employment outcomes in efficiency wage models. These findings are extended by incorporating more comprehensive tax functions, additional tax parameters, union-firm wage bargaining, and balanced budget restrictions. Moreover, the importance of different effort...

We examine the effects of two different types of commodity taxation, specific and ad valorem, on wages and profits. We analyze two models of wage determination, one with efficiency wage setting and one with bargaining between a union and a firm. In the former, a (locally) revenue-neutral shift...

We offer a unified framework to analyze the determination of employment, employee effort, wages, profit-sharing and capital structure when firms face stochastic revenue shocks. We apply a generalized Nash bargaining solution, which extends the wage bargaining literature by incorporating...

Die Beschäftigungswirkungen von Steuersenkungen und Änderungen der Steuerprogression werden in Modellen mit Lohnverhandlungen und Effizienzlöhnen untersucht. Es zeigt sich, daß die betrachteten Standardmodelle die positiven Effekte einer steileren Steuerprogression überzeichnen;...