Are contributions to public pension programmes a tax on employment?

Economic Policy

Volumn , Issue 39, 2004, Pages 267-311

  Disney, Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; EMPLOYMENT; PENSION SYSTEM; RETIREMENT; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 3242789286     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2004.00124.x     Document Type: Article

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