According to a widely held popular belief, a pure increase in tax progression decreases work effort, increases wages and is thus bad for employment under competitive labour markets. This paper studies the effects of labour taxes in a general equilibrium model of two countries with monopoly...

Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the...