In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has
increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book
analyses both the political origins of this increase and its
consequences for the labour market. Achim Kemmerling illustrates
that tax-based redistribution and employment are not incompatible,
and that the shift away from redistribution has not occurred on
grounds of economic efficiency. He goes on to show that a long-term
shift from capital to labour taxation has provoked conflicts of
interests between workers that have weakened the political cause of
tax-based redistribution. This interdisciplinary account of the
political economy of taxing low wages explains the historical and
structural origins of political tensions between different types of
workers and their effects on the performance of labour markets. As
such, it will strongly appeal to a wide-ranging audience, including
academics, students and researchers with a special interest in
political science, political economy, labour markets and the
economics of taxation. Practitioners in the field of labour market,
social and tax policies interested in the normative consequences of
taxation for the labour market will also find the book to be of
great interest.
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