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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions

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  • Goerke, Laszlo

    () (IAAEG, University of Trier)

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In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). Assuming unemployment to be caused by efficiency wages, it is shown that a balanced-budget shift from a payroll tax to a VAT will increase employment if the rise in the VAT does not alter consumer prices. If the effects of a shift from SSC to the VAT on the worker’s effort are neutralised, for example, by imposing a constant wedge, the employment impact will depend on the nature of the unemployment compensation system.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 55.

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Length: 23 pages
Date of creation: Aug 1999
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Publication status: published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1999, 219 (3/4), 308-325
Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp55

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Keywords: Efficiency wages; social security contributions; unemployment; value-added tax;

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  1. Goerke, Laszlo, 1999. "The Wedge," IZA Discussion Papers 71, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  2. Pia Weiss, 2001. "How to Finance Unemployment Benefits in an Economy with Search Generated Equilibrium Unemployment," Public Economics 0103001, EconWPA.

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