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Energy Taxation : Reasons for Discriminating in Favor of the Production Sector

Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2014

If a small open economy wishes to restrict it's greenhouse gas emissions, it has to decide whether to impose uniform taxes on all polluters or to resort to a discriminatory policy. In practice, countries tend to impose higher taxes on households and to tax the industrial sector more leniently....

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Revisiting the Cost of Protectionism : The Role of Tax Distortions in the Labor Market

Williams, Roberton C. - 2001

NOTE: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. Most studies of the welfare impacts of trade policy have ignored interactions between restrictive trade policies and pre-existing distortions from the income tax. This paper adds an income tax and consumer...

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Revisiting the Cost of Protectionism : The Role of Tax Distortions in the Labor Market

Williams, Roberton C. - 1998

Most studies of the welfare impacts of trade policy have ignored interactions between restrictive trade policies and pre-existing distortions from the income tax. This paper adds an income tax and consumer labor/leisure decision to a specific factors trade model in order to examine the effects...

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Labour Taxation and Employment in Trade Union Models : A Partial Survey

Koskela, Erkki - 2002

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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Tax Progression, Structure of Labour Taxation and Employment

Koskela, Erkki; Holm, Pasi - 1998

According to a widely held popular belief, a pure increase in tax progression decreases work effort, increases wages and is thus bad for employment under competitive labour markets. This paper studies the effects of labour taxes in a general equilibrium model of two countries with monopoly...

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Chapter 4 Taxes and labor supply

Hausman, Jerry A. - In: Handbook of public economics : volume 1, (pp. 213-263). 1985

economic theory, econometrics, and public finance. Since the greatest share of federal tax revenue, approximately 50 in 1980 … economic theory and econometrics need to be treated. First, the effect of progressive taxation is to create a convex, non …-linear budget set where the net, after-tax wage depends on hours worked. Since most of consumer theory is based on constant market …

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