Employment and wage effects of a payroll-tax cut-evidence from a regional experiment

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 753-772

  Korkeamäki, Ossi ^a   Uusitalo, Roope ^a,b  

^a Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

^b Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Labor demand; Payroll tax; Propensity score matching; Tax incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149100357     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: 15736970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10797-008-9088-6     Document Type: Article

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