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Essays on Labour Taxation and Unemployment Insurance
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-07-20)
The study consists of four essays, which analyse the implications of labour taxation and unemployment insurance (UI) in the models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. The first essay studies the effects of labour ...
Taxation, Employment and the Environment - General Equilibrium Analysis with Unionised Labour Markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
We evaluate the effects of labour and environmental taxes in a general equilibrium model with unionised labour markets and involuntary unemployment. Environmental externality is related to the consumption of a polluting ...
Subsidizing vs. Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-18)
Alternative ways to organize government subsidies to unemployment insurance (UI) are analyzed in a right-to-manage model where industry level unions run UI funds of their own. It is shown that equilibrium unemployment is ...
Progressive Taxation Under Centralised Wage Setting
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-01)
The study reconsiders the effects of tax progression in imperfectly competitive labour markets. Allowing for the individual supply of working hours, we show that the results derived in the standard model of decentralised ...
Unemployment Insurance with Limited Duration and Variable Replacement Ratio - Effects on Optimal Search
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-04-30)
This paper analyses the effects of an unemployment insurance with limited potential duration in a job search model with endogenous effort. Both constant and declining time sequence of benefits are considered. The model ...
Labour Tax Reforms and Labour Demand in Finland 1997-2001
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-06)
The report describes the development of labour taxation in Finland since the launching of the Employment Guidelines (EG) in 1997. The taxes considered include state and municipal taxes on earned income as well as social ...