A Cross-Country Analysis of the Tax-Push Hypothesis /

This paper presents a microeconomic theoretical model of union optimizing behavior which is then used to test the relevance of the tax-push hypothesis for wage formation in nine Western European countries. Two factors-the compensation and the progressivity effects-are shown by the model to account f...

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Hlavní autor: Padoa-Schioppa, Fiorella
Médium: Časopis
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992.
Edice:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/011
On-line přístup:Full text available on IMF