Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Wage Pressure?

Fredrik Wulfsberg

Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Increased tax progressivity raises the elasticity of labour demand with respect to consumer wages which implies that labour unions subtitute wages with employment. This paper investigates the effects to tax prograssivity on wages using Nerwegian establishment level panel data.

Keywords: WAGES; TAXATION; PANEL DATA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 H24 J38 J51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 1996
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