Strategic fiscal policies in Europe: Why does the labour wedge matter?
Most European countries suffer from a structural weakness in employment and competitiveness. Can an optimal tax system reinforce European countries in this respect? In this paper, we show that fiscal competition can be a welfare improving second best solution if the labour wedge is sufficiently larg...
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Volume: | 91 |
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Main Author: |
Langot, François
Lemoine, Matthieu |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Zielgruppe: |
Trade Academic |
Place of publication: |
AMSTERDAM Elsevier B.V 01.01.2017 ELSEVIER Elsevier Science Publishers |
published in: | European economic review Vol. 91; pp. 15 - 29 |
ORCID: |
0000-0003-3423-6903 |
Data of publication: | January 2017 |
ISSN: |
0014-2921 1873-572X |
EISSN: |
1873-572X |
Discipline: | Economics |
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Online Access: | available in Bonn? |
Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS |