Taxation, insurance, and precautionary labor

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 91, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 1519-1531

  Netzer, Nick ^a   Scheuer, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Precautionary labor; Redistributive taxation; Social insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249739168     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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