Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34367 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2861
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the tax with the smaller tax base will lead to the same results: they moderate wages, workers' effort, effective labour input and aggregate output. Whether employment rises or falls, however, depends in both reforms on the magnitude of the pre-reform total tax wedge. The larger this tax wedge is, the more negative is the impact of reforms on workers' effort. A larger total tax wedge increases the negative effect of tax progression on labour productivity and thus thwarts the positive employment effect of wage moderation.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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