Employment and taxes in Latin America: An empirical study of the effects of payroll, corporate income and value-added taxes on labor outcomes

This paper empirically explores the effects of payroll taxes, value-added taxes and corporate income taxes on a variety of labor market outcomes such as participation, employment, informality, and wages. The results are based on nationallevel data of labor variables for 15 Latin American countries,...

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Main Authors: Eduardo Lora, Johanna Fajardo-González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2016-01-01
Series:Cuadernos de Economía
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0121-47722016000100004&lng=en&tlng=en