Why Are Taxes So High in Egalitarian Societies?

DOI10.2307/3440543MaRDI QIDQ4213047zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

pre-tax wage inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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