Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment

32 Pages Posted: 12 Dec 2003

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Wolfgang Eggert

University of Freiburg - Institute of Public Finance; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Laszlo Goerke

University of Trier - Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Date Written: December 2003

Abstract

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are analyzed in scenarios which differ with respect to the constraints imposed on the set of available taxes and on the mobility of firms. As a general result, the welfare loss from labour market imperfections increases when tax bases become internationally mobile, which suggests an increasing relevance of domestic labour-market reforms when tax bases become global.

Keywords: optimal taxation, efficiency wages, unemployment

JEL Classification: H21, J41, J65

Suggested Citation

Eggert, Wolfgang and Goerke, Laszlo, Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment (December 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=475001 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.475001

Wolfgang Eggert

University of Freiburg - Institute of Public Finance ( email )

D-79098 Freiburg
Germany

CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

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Munich, DE-81679
Germany

Laszlo Goerke (Contact Author)

University of Trier - Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union ( email )

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Germany

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IZA Institute of Labor Economics

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