Wages and additional labour costs

Labour and Wages in Pre-industrial Catalonia

Unemployment Benefits, Wages, and Living Costs

*Bureau of Employment Security, Program Division. 1 Issues in Social Security, a report to the House Committee on Ways and Means by the Committee's Social Security Technical Staff (79th Cong., 1st sess.), 1946, p. 388. O N E FEATURE of the Sta te unemployment insurance laws in this country about which there has been very little disagreement is the principle of r e lating weekly benefits to pas ...

The Incidence of Income Tax on Wages and Labour Supply*

In the simple framework of a static model for equilibrium wages and labour supplies, we show that the incidence of income tax on equilibrium wages can be measured independently from the individual labour supply elasticity. This extends recent work by Blundell, Duncan and Meghir (1998) and Eissa and Liebman (1996), who estimate labour supply elasticities, and Gruber (1997), who estimates tax inc...

Discussion of Labour-Productivity Growth and Relative Wages: 1978-1994

Philip Lowe’s paper raises several interesting and overlapping issues which merit discussion. The experiences described for productivity in Australia have both similarities and dissimilarities with the experience of other countries. If we look at the restructuring phases in recent years in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, for example, they are characterised by substantial increases in l...

Labour Supply and the Incidence of Income Tax on Wages

In the simple framework of a static model for equilibrium wages and labour supplies, we show that the incidence of income tax on equilibrium wages can be measured independently from the individual labour supply elasticity. This extends recent work by Blundell, Duncan and Meghir (1998) and Eissa and Liebman (1996), who estimate labour supply elasticities, and Gruber (1997), who estimates tax inc...