Public goods, unemployment and policy coordination
Public goods, unemployment and policy coordination
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DOI：
10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2008.03.001
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发表时间：
2008-05-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Wehke, Sven
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作者：
Aronsson, Thomas;Wehke, Sven
早期关于税收竞争和政策协调的文献通常假设劳动力市场是竞争性的；这种描述不太适合欧洲，因为工会在欧洲劳动力市场长期占据强势地位。本文研究了以资本流动和劳动力市场不完全竞争为特征的小型开放经济体的要素所得税和公共产品供给。我们假设每个国家政府通过对资本和利润收入征税来获得公共收入，并且这些收入用于公共消费产品和公共投入产品，其中后者以“外部性生产要素”的形式进入经济系统。我们表明，即使劳动力市场是非竞争性的，税收协调也有助于提高福利。然而，Keen和Marchand [Keen， M., Marchand， M.， 1997]导出的公共投入商品的相对过度供给。财政竞争与公共支出模式。公共经济学报，66,33-53。在失业的情况下可能不再有效。(C) 2008 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
Earlier literature on tax competition and policy coordination typically assumes that the labor market is competitive; a description less suitable for Europe, where trade unions have had a strong position in the labor market for a long time. This paper concerns factor income taxation and public good provision in small open economies characterized by capital mobility and imperfect competition in the labor market. We assume that each national government collects public revenues via taxes on capital and profit income, and that the revenues are spent on a public consumption good and a public input good, where the latter enters the economic system in terms of an I externality production factor'. We show that tax coordination contributes to higher welfare even if the labor market is noncompetitive. However, the relative overprovision of the public input good derived by Keen and Marchand [Keen, M., Marchand, M., 1997. Fiscal competition and the pattern of public spending. Journal of Public Economics 66, 33-53.] may no longer hold in the presence of unemployment. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.