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Payroll taxes, capital grants and Irish unemployment
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Date Issued
1989-07
Date Available
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Abstract
This paper explores the role of factor prices in macroeconomic models which embody the frequently-encountered Classical, Keynesian, and Structuralist perspectives on the caused of Irish unemployment. It is argued that within each framework a strong case can be made for at least partial repleacement of the current IDA capital-grants scheme by a policy of payroll-tax reductions for newly-created jobs. Various objections to this type of proposal have been raised in the literature, and these are dealt with here on a point-by-point basis. A range of estimates is given for the likely employment effects and exchequer costs of the proposed policy.
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A hard copy is available in UCD Library at GEN 330.08 IR/UNI
Type of Material
Working Paper
Publisher
University College Dublin. School of Economics
Series
UCD Centre for Economic Research Policy Paper Series
PP89/4
Subject – LCSH
Unemployment--Ireland
Employment (Economic theory)
Subsidies--Ireland
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Conference Details
Paper presented at the 1989 Annual Conference of the Irish Economic Association
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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