Business & economic sciences : Economic systems & public economics
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/25529
Taxation and Labor Markets
English
Picard, Pierre M[University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Center for Research in Economic Analysis (CREA) >]
Toulemonde, Eric[Centre de Recherche en Économie Régionale et Politique Économique (CERPE) Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG) Université de Namur > > > ; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)]
[en] We exploit the common features of models such as union-firm wage bargaining, search and efficiency wage models to develop a framework that can be used for analyzing the effects of any budget-neutral tax reform on employment in these models. We show that taxes paid by workers are not equivalent to taxes paid by firms when taxes are non linear. Moreover, increasing progressivity is good for employment in these models.