Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax

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作者
Lang, Kevin [1 ]
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[1] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
来源
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS-REVUE CANADIENNE D ECONOMIQUE | 2020年 / 53卷 / 01期
关键词
DUAL LABOR-MARKETS; EFFICIENCY WAGES; GIFT EXCHANGE; SUPERVISION; INFERENCE; PAY;
D O I
10.1111/caje.12426
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
I show that under a canonical efficiency-wage model, a per capita employment tax levied on the employer raises the wage. In contrast, under market clearing, wages fall regardless of whether effort is contractible. I examine the effect of increases in the earnings base for the payroll tax in the United States on wages of high-wage workers for whom the change represents an increase in a per capita tax. In most specifications, the results suggest that wages rose, consistent with the efficiency-wage model, but they are generally too imprecise to rule out large effects of wages on non-contractible productivity that are insufficient to prevent market clearing. Provided labour demand is inelastic, the results are inconsistent with a model of contractible effort. Resume Effort et salaire : l'exemple des prelevements sociaux. Dans un modele canonique de salaire d'efficience, je montre qu'une taxe a l'emploi par tete imposee a l'employeur est un facteur d'augmentation des salaires. En revanche, dans un modele de salaire d'equilibre, les paies diminuent, que l'effort soit integre par contrat ou non. Dans cet article, j'examine l'effet des relevements successifs de la base de revenu assujettie aux prelevements sociaux aux etats-Unis pour les travailleurs les mieux remuneres, et pour qui de tels changements se caracterisent par une hausse de l'impot par tete. Dans la plupart des cas, les resultats suggerent une augmentation des salaires, conformement au modele de salaire d'efficience. Neanmoins, de tels resultats sont generalement trop imprecis pour exclure les effets importants des salaires sur la productivite non integree par contrat, insuffisants pour empecher un equilibre du marche. Si la demande de main d'oeuvre est inelastique, les resultats ne concordent pas avec le modele d'effort integre par contrat.
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