Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76486 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1102
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are analyzed in scenarios which differ with respect to the constraints imposed on the set of available taxes and on the mobility of firms. As a general result, the welfare loss from labour market imperfections increases when tax bases become internationally mobile, which suggests an increasing relevance of domestic labour-market reforms when tax bases become global.
Subjects: 
taxation
efficiency wages
unemployment
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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