Labor Taxation in the Western Balkan: Looking Back and Forward

Labor Taxation in the Western Balkan: Looking Back and Forward
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2022 Issue 239
Publication date: December 2022
ISBN: 9798400227769
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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Taxation - General , Economics / General , Western Balkan , labor taxation , labor tax wedge , personal income tax , corporate income tax , social security contributions , income taxation , SSC reduction , employer SSCs , Labor taxes , Tax wedge , Wages , Labor markets , Europe

Summary

This paper examines how labor taxation (personal income taxes and social security contributions) in the Western Balkan contributes to labor market outcomes such as high informality and a significant gender gap in participation rates. We find that limited progressivity combined with high tax wedge on low incomes poses a major twin equity-efficiency challenge in the region, resulting in low redistributive capacity and inadequate incentives to enter the job market. Policy implications are discussed with a view to alleviating the excessively high tax wedges on low incomes, while improving progressivity of income taxation.