Tax progression is good for employment in popular models of trade union behaviour

Labour Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-80

  Koskela, Erkki ^a   Vilmunen, Jouko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Tax progression; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030211010     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0927-5371(95)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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