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Optimal tax progressivity in unionised labour markets: Simulation results for Germany

Boeters, Stefan - 2010

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …

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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.

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Environmental tax reform in a small open economy with structural unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 1997

-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 …

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Taxation, Unemployment and Growth: Dynamic Welfare Effects of "Green" Policies

Bye, Brita - 1996

setting, and a fixed exchange rate implies wage rigidity and involuntary unemployment. The long run effects on instantaneous …

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Subsidising Education with Unionised Labour Markets

Wöhlbier, Florian - 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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Subsidising Education with Unionised Labour Markets

Wöhlbier, Florian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...

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Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer budgetneutralen Reform der Besteuerung von Produktionsfaktoren

Boeters, Stefan - 2000

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