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Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-10-22)
This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditure in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing for both demand ...
Social Security Funds, Payroll Tax Adjustment and Real Exchange Rate: The Finnish Model
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
This paper presents the Finnish system of EMU buffer funds. The idea of the buffer funds is to finance
temporary reductions of payroll taxes in a case of asymmetric shock facing the economy. It is well-known that by ...
Taxes, Growth and Unemployment in the OECD Countries - Does Collective Bargaininig Matter?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-19)
This paper analyses how collective bargaining affects the level and structure of labour and capital taxes in OECD countries by using cross-country-time-series data. Corporatist countries are found to have higher effective ...
Uncovering the Dimensions of the Common Good - Problems of Measurement of the Size of the Public Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-23)
There are problems in the measures of the size of the public sector both from the perspective of welfare state policies, monetary policy and the analysis of the economic role of public sector in general. In practice there ...
Are Government Expenditures Productive? Measuring the Effect on Private Sector Production
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-03-03)
This paper analyses the productivity of public expenditures. It follows the branch of literature originated by Aschauer but has also some novel features. First of all, it focuses on the effect of both public investment and ...
Eastern Enlargement and Portugal
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
The paper is structured in two parts. The first one analyses the proposals of the European Commission concerning the reform of the European Union policies and the Eastern enlargement, set out in Agenda 2000. The second ...
On Calculating Welfare Losses of Taxation and Public Provision
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1994-01-01)
Fiscal Policy, Automatic Stabilisers and Policy Coordination in EMU
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
This paper deals with fiscal policy coordination. In particular, it focuses on the question of how fiscal policy can be coordinated inside EMU, where countries still differ considerably in terms of cyclical behaviour and ...
Fiscal Policy in the 1920s and 1930s. How much different it is from the post war period's policies
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-11-08)
This paper deals with the fiscal behaviour of governments in the 1920s and 1930s. The intention is to see whether there were the same features in government behaviour as in the post-World War II era. In particular, attention ...
Labour Taxation and the Degree of Centralisation in a Trade Union Model with Endogenous Labour Supply
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-03-30)
This paper considers the effect of labour taxation on wages and employment in a trade union model with endogenous working hours. In the model, individuals choose working hours with a given wage rate, competitive firms ...