The future of taxation in changing labour markets

Michael Christl, Ilias Livanos () and Andrea Papini
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Ilias Livanos: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP), Thessaloniki (Pylea), Greece

Public Sector Economics, 2023, vol. 47, issue 4, 521-554

Abstract: This paper provides a first assessment of the fiscal and distributional consequences of the ongoing structural changes in the labour markets of EU member states, mostly driven by technological progress and ageing. The Cedefop 2020 Skills forecast (including the effects of COVID-19), population projections and the forecast on pension expenditures depict a scenario of an ageing population, an inverted U-shaped unemployment trend and potentially polarising labour markets in the EU till 2030, the latter mostly driven by a surge in high-skill occupations. We make use of the microsimulation model EUROMOD and reweighting techniques to analyse the fiscal and distributional impacts of these trends under a no-policy-change assumption. The results suggest that the macro trends will increase pressure on government budgets, however, we also show that the current tax-benefit systems have the capacity to counterbalance the increases in income inequality and poverty risks triggered by the expected future labour markets developments.

Keywords: income distribution; budget; deficit; job polarisation; population ageing; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H68 J11 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.3326/pse.47.4.7

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