Why Are Taxes So High in Egalitarian Societies?

DOI10.2307/3440543zbMATH Open0907.90110OpenAlexW1490847154MaRDI QIDQ4213047FDOQ4213047

Authors: Mats Persson 

Publication date: 7 October 1998

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3440543

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zbMATH Keywords

pre-tax wage inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64)

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