Trade unions have been successful in compressing the wage distributionbut not in influencing the share of national income going to labour. This paperclaims that a compressed wage distribution provides insurance in the same way thatthe tax and benefit system does and thus may be...

In diesem Beitrag werden die Effekte symmetrischer und asymmetrischer Besteuerungauf die Vorteilhaftigkeit erfolgsabhängiger und erfolgsunabhängiger Entlohnungsverträgeuntersucht. Dazu wird ein binäres Agency-Modell verwendet, in das eine proportionaleUnternehmenssteuer auf Ebene des...

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...