Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47607 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge No. 149
Publisher: 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Tübingen
Abstract: 
This note derives a model of the wage curve, closely following Phelps (1994) and Campbell and Orszag (1998). Phelps discusses a variety of theoretical bases for a wae curve, the two major competing types being bargaining models and efficiency wage models, though Phelps prefers the term 'incentive wage' models for the latter. The model discussed here is a parametric version of one of Phelps's incentive wage models, developed by Campell and Orszag. The innovation here is to introduce income taxation into the model, with the effect of modifying the wage curve by introducing a measure of tax progressivity into the equation of the wage curve. This result provides a link to the bargaining literature, where the same effect of progression has already been demonstrated.
Subjects: 
Wage curve
progressive taxation
JEL: 
J30
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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