TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kessing, Sebastian G.
AU  - Konrad, Kai A.
        TI  - Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation
        PY  - 2005/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1545
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1545
        AB  - Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a welfare state in the context of optimal direct taxation in the tradition of Mirrlees (1971). Our results also apply to non-welfarist states which have income redistribution, but not in purely extortionary states.
        KW  - labor unions
KW  - work hours
KW  - optimal income taxation
        ER  -