Wage bargaining, Labor-tax progression, and welfare

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-150

  Fuest, Clemens ^a   Huber, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Tax progression; Trade unions; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042946527     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01234403     Document Type: Article

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