Arbeitspapier

Public Profit Sharing

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited to measures that hurt neither shareholders nor workers. This paper develops a policy proposal, which allows the government to reduce wage costs without changing the income positions as determined in the process of wage negotiations. It is shown that the introduction of public profit sharing, i.e. substituting profit share for social security contributions, can boost employment both in the short run and the long run. Calibrating the model and comparing the results with recent empirical findings about the impact of labour taxation confirm the theoretical findings.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 489

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Public profit sharing
trade unions
unemployment
labour market reform

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Schöb, Ronnie
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2001

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Schöb, Ronnie
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2001

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