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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Auteur principal: Padoa-Schioppa, Fiorella
Format: Revue
Langue:English
Publié: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992.
Collection:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/011
Accès en ligne:Full text available on IMF