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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| Format: | Tidsskrift |
| Sprog: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
1992.
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| Serier: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 1992/011 |
| Online adgang: | Full text available on IMF |