Consumption taxes and economic efficiency with idiosyncratic wage shocks

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1088-1115

  Nishiyama, Shinichi ^a   Smetters, Kent ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; POLITICAL ECONOMY; WAGE;

EID: 27344440798     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/432137     Document Type: Article

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