Overview

Unemployment remains a major problem for economic policy at the beginning of the millennium. ""Taxes and Unemployment"" investigates how tax policy affects labour market outcomes in industrialized countries and to what extent it can be used to combat unemployment. In particular, the wage and employment consequences of tax rate variations, the impact of changes in tax progression and of comprehensive tax reforms are analyzed. It is shown that the employment effects of tax policy depend crucially on the institutional features of the labour market. These features are often country-specific and include the strength of collective bargaining institutions relative to other mechanisms of wage determination, the tax treatment of the jobless, the legal incidence of taxes and the exact specification of the tax system. Therefore, ""Taxes and Unemployment"" advocates an approach to reducing unemployment which is tailored to the specific characteristics of labour markets. Moreover, the analysis indicates that tax reforms need to be supported by other policy measures to regain full employment.

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Author:   Laszlo Goerke
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2002 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.370kg
ISBN:  

9780792374404

ISBN 10:   0792374401
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   30 November 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

1 Aims and Scope.- 2 Basic Models.- 2.1 Fundamental Assumptions.- 2.2 Competitive Labour Maekrt.- 2.3 Union-Firm Interaction.- 2.4 Efficiency Wage Models.- 2.5 Summary.- 3 Income Taxes.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Compertitive Labour Market.- 3.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 3.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 3.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 3.6 Efficiency Wages.- 3.7 Income Taxes in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- 4 Taxes on Labour Costs.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Competitive Labour Market.- 4.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 4.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 4.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 4.6 Efficiency Wages.- 4.7 Taxes on Labour Costs in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- Appendix to Chapter 4.- 5 Tax on Revenues.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Competitive Labour Market.- 5.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 5.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 5.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 5.6 Efficiency Wages.- 5.7 Tax on Revenues in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- 6 Comprehensive Tax Reforms.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The Wedge between Labour Costs and Net Wages.- 6.3 Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions.- 6.4 On Tax Reforms.- 7 Policy Implications.- Symbols and Abbreviations.- References.

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