Incidence Analysis of Financing Unemployment Benefits in a Partially Unionized Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9725959 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bertil Holmlund, Per Lundborg |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 227 |
| Pages | 371 |
| Publication date | 1990-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2554940 |
| OpenAlex | W1487500817 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The incidence of unemployment benefits are analysed under alternative financing modes in a two-sector general equilibrium model with a segmented labour market where one sector is unionized and queue unemployment exists. Specific tax incidence as well as balanced budget incidence are analysed. The main results are: (i) The distributional effects are identical irrespective of which factor is taxed in the union sector, (ii) the distributional effects are also identical irrespective of which factor is taxed in the non-union sector, and (iii) labour gains by a uniform UI tax on capital in both sectors and may or may not gain from a uniform labour tax, while capital owners lose in both cases. Thus, what matters for the incidence outcome is which sector, and not which factor, that is taxed
Capital (architecture) · Economics · Incidence (geometry) · Indirect tax · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Tax incidence · Tax reform · Unemployment · Economic Policies and Impacts · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |