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
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
Subjects:	International trade Optimal taxation General equilibrium model Labour wedge Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Fiscal policy Game theory D51 International trade Optimal taxation F42 H21 Labour wedge General equilibrium model TRADE
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