Taxes and Unemployment: Collective Bargaining and Efficiency Wage Models

ISBN-13: 9781461352396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 302 str.

Laszlo Goerke

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1 Aims and Scope.- 2 Basic Models.- 2.1 Fundamental Assumptions.- 2.1.1 Firms.- 2.1.2 Workers.- 2.1.3 Trade Union.- 2.1.4 Nash-Bargaining Solution.- 2.2 Competitive Labour Maekrt.- 2.3 Union-Firm Interaction.- 2.3.1 Right-to-Manage Model with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 2.3.2 Efficient Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 2.3.3 Right-to-Manage Model with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 2.3.3.1 Foundations.- 2.3.3.2 Membership Indifference Curve.- 2.3.3.3 Wage Bargaining.- 2.3.3.4 Equilibrium.- 2.4 Efficiency Wage Models.- 2.4.1 Effort Function.- 2.4.2 Profit Maximisation.- 2.4.3 Equilibrium.- 2.4.4 Long-run Perspective.- 2.5 Summary.- 3 Income Taxes.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Compertitive Labour Market.- 3.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 3.3.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 3.3.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 3.3.3 Income Taxes in a Wage Bargaining Model with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 3.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 3.4.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 3.4.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 3.4.3 Income Taxes in an Efficient Bargaining Model.- 3.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 3.5.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 3.5.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 3.5.3 Income Taxes in a Social Custom Model.- 3.6 Efficiency Wages.- 3.6.1 Short-run.- 3.6.1.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 3.6.1.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 3.6.1.3 Income Taxes in an Efficiency Wage World with a Constant Number of Firms.- 3.6.2 Long-run.- 3.6.2.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 3.6.2.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 3.6.2.3 Income Taxes in a Constant Profit World.- 3.6.3 Income Taxes in Efficiency Wage Models.- 3.7 Income Taxes in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- 4 Taxes on Labour Costs.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Competitive Labour Market.- 4.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 4.3.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 4.3.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 4.3.2.1 Ex-Ante Constancy of Tax Level.- 4.3.2.2 Ex-Post Constancy of Tax Level or Tax Revenues.- 4.3.3 Summary of Partial Equilibrium Effects.- 4.3.4 General Equilibrium Repercussions.- 4.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 4.4.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 4.4.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 4.4.3 Taxes on Labour Costs in an Efficient Bargaining Model.- 4.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 4.5.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 4.5.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 4.5.2.1 Ex-Ante Constancy of Tax Levels.- 4.5.2.2 Ex-Post Constancy of Tax Payments or Tax Revenues.- 4.5.3 Taxes on Labour Costs in a Social Custom Model.- 4.6 Efficiency Wages.- 4.6.1 Short-run.- 4.6.1.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 4.6.1.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 4.6.2 Long-run.- 4.6.2.1 Variations in Tax Levels.- 4.6.2.2 Revenue-neutral Tax Reforms.- 4.6.2.3 Taxes on Labour Costs in a Constant Profit World.- 4.6.3 Labour Taxation in Efficiency Wage Models.- 4.7 Taxes on Labour Costs in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- Appendix to Chapter 4.- 5 Tax on Revenues.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Competitive Labour Market.- 5.3 Wage Bargaining with Exogenous Trade Union Membership.- 5.4 Efficient Bargaining.- 5.5 Wage Bargaining with Endogenous Trade Union Membership.- 5.6 Efficiency Wages.- 2.6.1 Short-run.- 5.6.2 Long-run.- 5.6.3 Tax on Revenues in Efficiency Wage Models.- 5.7 Tax on Revenues in Imperfectly Competitive Labour Markets.- 6 Comprehensive Tax Reforms.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 The Wedge between Labour Costs and Net Wages.- 6.2.1 Selective Survey.- 6.2.2 Competitive Labour Market.- 6.2.3 Collective Wage Determination.- 6.2.4 Efficiency Wage Economy.- 6.2.4.1 Short-run.- 6.2.4.2 Longer-run Perspective.- 6.2.5 Social Security Contributions and Alternative Income.- 6.3 Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions.- 6.3.1 Introduction.- 6.3.2 Specification of the Benefit System.- 6.3.3 Changes of Tax Rates.- 6.3.4 Payroll Tax versus VAT.- 6.3.5 An Employment-Enhancing Reduction in Employee's Contributions.- 6.3.6 A Reduction in Contributions Shared by Employers and Employees.- 6.3.7 Summary and Evaluation.- 6.4 On Tax Reforms.- 7 Policy Implications.- Symbols and Abbreviations.- References.

O autorze

Laszlo Goerke studierte in Hamburg und Warwick (England) Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Geschichte und Politologie. Nach einer Promotion über Arbeitskämpfe an der Universität Hamburg im Jahr 1995 ging er für ein Jahr an die University of Southampton (England), um sich anschließend an der Universität Konstanz mit einer Arbeit über die Arbeitsmarkteffekte der Steuerpolitik zu habilitieren. Nach einer Vertretungsprofessur in Regensburg übernahm Laszlo Goerke 2002 den Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wirtschaftspolitik an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Seit Mitte 2006 ist er Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Finanzwissenschaft an der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.