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Taxation and Wage Bargaining

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  • JAMES PEMBERTON

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The paper analyzes the effects of personal taxes on wage bargaining It concludes that an increase in tax progressivity will normally increase union wage‐bargaining pressure and so raise the equilibrium wage This is the opposite result to that recently derived by Creedy and McDonald (1990).

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  • James Pemberton, 1992. "Taxation and Wage Bargaining," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 68(4), pages 318-327, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:68:y:1992:i:4:p:318-327
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1992.tb01782.x
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    1. Richard Layard & Stephen Nickell, 1990. "Is Unemployment Lower if Unions Bargain over Employment?," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 105(3), pages 773-787.
    2. JOHN CREEDY & IAN M. McDONALD, 1991. "Models of Trade Union Behaviour: A Synthesis," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 67(4), pages 346-359, December.
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