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Labour Market Flexibility in Scotland and the New Parliament's Income Tax Varying Powers

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  • J. Houston
  • A. Gasteen
  • D. Asenova

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This paper examines the implications of increased labour market flexibility in the form of part-time work for the 'Scottish public finances' in the context of devolution and the establishment of a Scottish Parliament with tax varying powers. The labour market/public finance implications of increased flexibility are discussed. The Scottish situation is then analysed using an integrated spreadsheet model which calculates the net contributions (taxes minus benefits) of different household types. The findings show that a substitution of part-time for full-time jobs has the potential to seriously erode households' net contributions and so exacerbate the existing structural deficit in the Scottish public finances. Dans le contexte de la regionalisation et de l'etablissement d'un Parlement ecossais dote des pouvoirs quant a la modulation des impots, cet article cherche a examiner les retombees sur les finances publiques ecossaises de la souplesse accrue du marchedu travail sous forme du travail ¤ atemps partiel. On discute des retombees de la souplesse accrue sur le marchedu travail/les finances publiques. Il s'ensuit une analyse de la situation en Ecosseapartir d'un modele tableur integre qui calcule les contributions nettes(impots moins prestations) des differentes categories de menages. Les resultats laissent voir que la substitution des emplois a temps partiel aux emplois a plein temps risque d'eroder serieusement les contributions nettes des menages et, de cette facon, d'aggraver le deficit structurel actuel des finances publiques ecossaises. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die Implikationen grosserer Elastizitat des Arbeitsmarktes in Form von Teilzeitarbeit fur die offentlichen Finanzen Schottlands im Zusammenhang mit Dezentralisierung und der Bildung eines schottischen Parlamentes mit der Befugnis, Anderungen bei der Besteuerung vorzunehmen. Die Implikationen grosserer Elastizitat fur den Arbeitsmarktes/die Staatsfinanzen werden diskutiert. Dann wird die schottische Situation mit Hilfe eines integrierten Tabellenkalkulationsmodells analysiert, welches die Nettobetrage (Steuern abzuglich Sozialhilfe) verschiedener Haushaltstypen berechnet. Die Befunde zeigen, dass der Ersatz ganztagiger Erwerbstatigkeit durch Teilzeitarbeit die Moglichkeit in sich birgt, die Nettobeitrage von Haushalten besorgniserregend auszuhohlen, und damit das bereits bestehende, in der Struktur verankerte Defizit der Staatsfinanzen Schottlands zu verscharfen.

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  • J. Houston & A. Gasteen & D. Asenova, 2001. "Labour Market Flexibility in Scotland and the New Parliament's Income Tax Varying Powers," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(4), pages 321-328.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:35:y:2001:i:4:p:321-328
    DOI: 10.1080/00343400125350
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