Efficiency wages

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Redundancy Pay and Collective Dismissals

Redundancy payments for collective dismissals are incorporated into a Shapiro-Stiglitz model of efficiency wages. It is shown that a fixed...

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Tax Progressivity and Tax Evasion

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this prediction is not robust to...

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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions

In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in...

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The Wedge

It is often argued that the quantity which is traded on the market is independent of the side of the market which is taxed. However, this assertion...

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Employment Effects of Labour Taxation in an Efficiency Wage Model with Alternative Budget Constraints and Time Horizons

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held...

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Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm...

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