Labor Demand Responses to Payroll Taxes in an Economy with Wage Rigidity: Evidence from Colombia
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Keywords
Payroll taxes; formal employment; formal wages; labor policy; impuestos a la nómina; empleo formal; salarios formales; política laboral;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
- H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-IUE-2025-01-27 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAM-2025-01-27 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LMA-2025-01-27 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-PBE-2025-01-27 (Public Economics)
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