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Taxing the Working Poor - 9781847207784

Un libro in lingua di Achim Kemmerling edito da Edward Elgar Pub, 2009

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For Kemmerling (postdoctoral fellow, Jacobs U. Bremen, Germany), "the real question in contemporary welfare states is not whether, but how welfare is financed." In other words, the question concerns the longstanding and interdependent issues of how the structure of taxation affects low-wage workers and why politics in different countries lead to different tax structures. He argues, somewhat counter-intuitively, that the sharper the conflict between medium-skilled and low-skilled workers, and the less representative unions there are for low-skilled workers, the lower the degree of tax progressivity. He identifies two major causal mechanisms for this: first, tax progression eats up wage increases on the margin, causing unions to oppose it, and second, tax progression at the lower end of the wage scale makes job competition fiercer, putting workers with slightly higher wages under pressure and also causing trade unions that represent medium-skilled workers to oppose it. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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