Unemployment, growth and taxation in industrial countries

In Europe, labor costs have gone up for many reasons, but one is particularly easy to identify: higher taxes on labor. If wages are set by strong and decentralized trade unions, an increase in labor taxes is shifted onto higher real wages. This has two effects. First, it reduces labor demand, and th...

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Published in:Economic policy 2000-04, Vol.15 (30), p.47-104
Main Authors: Daveri, Francesco, Tabellini, Guido
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Tax rates
Unemployment
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