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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...
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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...
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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...
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We analyze the impact of progressive taxation on irreversible investment under uncertainty. We show that if tax … exemption is lower than sunk cost, higher tax rate will decelerate optimal investment by increasing the optimal investment … investment threshold is a positive function of volatility, but independent of tax rate. For "medium" volatilities it is …
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