Who is Afraid of Capital Mobility? On Taxation of Labor Income and the Level of Public Services in an Open Economy

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 79-101

  Lorz, Oliver ^a   Stähler, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital mobility; Income taxes; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347236807     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231217     Document Type: Article

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