Taxation And Unemployment

Author : Mr.Howell H. Zee
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451974348

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Taxation and Unemployment by Mr.Howell H. Zee Pdf

This paper reviews conceptual linkages between taxation and unemployment, available empirical evidence and country policies that may have a bearing on these linkages in the OECD and in a sample of developing and transitional economies, Fund policy advice on these issues, and tax policy options in addressing the unemployment problem. It concludes that the emphasis in policy should be placed on minimizing tax distortions, rather than on formulating activist tax policies to reduce unemployment.

Author : Marco Buti,Paolo Sestito,Hans Wijkander
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781009848

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Taxation, Welfare, and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe by Marco Buti,Paolo Sestito,Hans Wijkander Pdf

The papers in this volume analyse the role of European tax and benefit systems in incentives to create and take up jobs. The first section provides an overview of the issues relating to the trade-off between equity and efficiency. The second section describes the burden of taxation and the generosity of the welfare system in Europe. Part three examines how to evaluate the effects of tax and welfare reforms and the final section looks at ways that tax can be used to deal with some structural problems. The papers show that European policy makers face tough choices and that reforms are costly, with complex trade-offs.

Author : Mr.Dennis J. Snower
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451848649

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Unemployment Benefits Versus Conditional Negative Income Taxes by Mr.Dennis J. Snower Pdf

The paper analyzes the wage-employment effects of replacing unemployment benefits by negative income taxes. It first surveys the major equity and efficiency effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes, and summarizes the salient features of many European unemployment benefit systems in this light. Second, it presents a simple theoretical model that focuses on the relative wage-employment effects of unemployment benefits versus negative income taxes. Finally, it provides some empirical groundwork for assessing this relative effect

Author : Mr.Alun H. Thomas
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451922745

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The Effects of Tax Wedges on Hours Worked and Unemployment in Sweden by Mr.Alun H. Thomas Pdf

The paper investigates the relationship between labor taxation and unemployment in Sweden by estimating a labor market model that includes a wage-setting locus and labor demand and supply relationships. The study simulates the effect of a 1 percentage point increase in the payroll tax and in total tax rates. The increase in the payroll tax pushes up labor costs by about 1⁄2 percent over a 5–10 year time horizon. Hours worked fall by 0.5 percent and the unemployment rate rises by 0.3 percentage point. The increase in total tax rates generates a similar result. Therefore, it appears that increases in taxes have adversely affected employment and unemployment in Sweden.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020724212

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Making Work Pay by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

This volume looks at how tax and benefit systems may discourage individuals to seek employment and firms to hire workers. An examination of potential tax and benefit reforms and a survey of changes in OECD countries designed to improve incentives suggest a series of recommendations to policy-makers.

Author : Christopher A. Pissarides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924078628611

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The Impact of Employment Tax Cuts on Unemployment and Wages by Christopher A. Pissarides Pdf

Author : Laszlo Goerke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461507871

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Taxes and Unemployment by Laszlo Goerke Pdf

This chapter has set out in detail the models which are employed below in order to analyse the labour market effects of changes in tax rates and in alterations in the tax structure. The fundamental mechanisms underlying the different approaches have been pointed out. Moreover, vital assumptions have been emphasised. By delineating the models which are used for the subsequent analyses, implicitly statements have also been made about topics or aspects which this study does not cover. For example, all workers and firms are identical ex ante. However, ex-post differences are allowed for, inter alia, if unemploy ment occurs or if some firms have to close down. These restrictions indicate areas of future research insofar as that the findings for homogeneous workers or firms yield an unambiguous proposal for changes in tax rates or the tax structure in order to promote employment. This is because it would be desir able for tax policy to know whether the predicted effects also hold in a world with ex-ante heterogeneity. Furthermore, the product market has not played a role. Therefore, repercussions from labour markets outcomes on product demand - and vice versa - are absent. 55 Moreover, neither the process of capital accumulation, be it physical or human capital, nor substitution pos sibilities between labour and capital in the firms' production function are taken into account. Finally, international competition is not modelled.

Author : Richard Disney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiscal policy
ISBN : UCSD:31822028790038

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The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policies on Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries by Richard Disney Pdf

Author : Arnold, Brian J,Canada. Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance,D. Keith McNair,National Tax Centre (London, Ont.)
Publisher : [London, Ont.] : National Tax Centre
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Income tax
ISBN : OCLC:796957748

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Taxation and Employment : Provisions of the Income Tax Act Affecting Employment. Taxation and Capital Investment : Provisions of the Income Tax Affecting Capital Investment : Studies for the Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance by Arnold, Brian J,Canada. Commission of Inquiry on Unemployment Insurance,D. Keith McNair,National Tax Centre (London, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Marc P. Freiman,United States. Congressional Budget Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Insurance, Unemployment
ISBN : UCAL:C3321522

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An Econometric Model of Unemployment Insurance Tax Receipts by Marc P. Freiman,United States. Congressional Budget Office Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451966008

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Social Security Tax Reform and Unemployment by International Monetary Fund Pdf

This paper develops and calibrates a simple general equilibrium model with two types of labor and capital for the French economy. The simulation results indicate that targeted reductions in employer social security taxes have six times as large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions for equal initial budgetary cost, while employee social security tax reductions have a negative effect on employment. They also point to the presence of “self-financing,” whereby reductions in various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment insurance outlays.1

Author : John Sturgis Codman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Direct taxation
ISBN : UCAL:$B670163

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Unemployment and Our Revenue Problem by John Sturgis Codman Pdf

Author : Laszlo Goerke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 146150788X

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Taxes and Unemployment by Laszlo Goerke Pdf

Author : Jonas Agell,Peter Birch Sørensen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262012294

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Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance by Jonas Agell,Peter Birch Sørensen Pdf

Other chapters examine the effects of tax reforms, including the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the wage-increasing effects of progressive income taxes in a highly unionized labor market. Finally, the contributors analyze the effects of employment protection and tax penalties on the growth of the underground economy. The insights offered in these studies will be valuable to the policy analyst as well as to the academic theorist

Author : Loek Groot
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781402027260

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Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice by Loek Groot Pdf

Basic income is a regularly debated topic in various scholarly disciplines (political philosophy, political theory, welfare economics, labour market economics and social policy) and in circles of policy makers, administrators and activists. Since the late 1970s, unemployment is the primary problem for social-economic policy in all welfare states. In Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice it is argued that implementing a substantial basic income is the best policy response to deal with unemployment-induced problems such as job insecurity, social exclusion, poverty and lack of compensatory justice on the labour market and to improve labour market flexibility, boost low wage employment and part-time work. Basic Income, Unemployment and Compensatory Justice, with an introductory chapter by Philippe van Parijs, discusses the attractiveness of a substantial basic income to deal with the problem of unemployment, in combination with an ethical perspective of social justice. Loek Groot is a senior lecturer at the Utrecht School of Economics.