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On the Equivalence of Taxes Paid by Employers and Employees

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Pierre M. Picard
Eric Toulemonde () (Department of Economics, University of Aarhus, Denmark)

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In this paper we study the employment effects of a budget neutral restructuring of taxes levied on employers and employees. We derive conditions for taxes levied on workers to have the same employment effects as taxes levied on firms under standard processes of wage determination.

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Keywords: Taxation; wages; employment;

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E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
H3 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents
J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts
J51 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects

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