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wage inequality labor cost payroll tax tax incidence I - Health, Education, and Welfare/I.I2 - Education and Research Institutions/I.I2.I24 - Education and Inequality J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor/J.J2.J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs/J.J3.J31 - Wage Level and Structure • Wage DifferentialsSujets proches
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Malka Guillot et al., « The Contribution of Payroll Taxation to Wage Inequality in France », Archive Ouverte d'INRAE, ID : 10670/1.p1ynw3
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Over the 1967-2015 period, net wage inequality has decreased in France by 25%, in contrast to the significant increase experienced by most developed countries. Less well known is the fact that labor cost inequality has actually increased by 8% over the same period. We show that, (a) standard demand-side explanations for the rise in inequality apply in France when tested using measures of labor cost (as they should be); (b) reforms to payroll taxation, jointly with increases in the minimum wage, can explain a large part of the decrease in net wage inequality, in the context of increasing market inequality.