The real cause of Greek debt: Taxation and labour market distortions in Greece

Greece has the lowest public receipts of all the eurozone members, and this contributes significantly to the annual budget deficits and the extremely high level of public debt. The source of this shortfall is personal income taxation. The following article analyses the distortions in the labour market and in the taxation system which have led to this situation and points out where changes should be made.

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Year of publication:	2011
Authors:	Mitsopoulos, Michael ; Pelagidis, Theodore
Published in:	Intereconomics. - Heidelberg : Springer, ISSN 1613-964X. - Vol. 46.2011, 2, p. 112-120
Publisher:	Heidelberg : Springer

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1007/s10272-011-0372-9 [DOI] 732415357 [GVK] hdl:10419/74559 [Handle]
Source:	EconStor

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