Disinflation and Taxation: the Case of Israel
研究了以色列高通胀时期税收与汇率政策如何使工人承担不对称的沉重负担，而企业和自雇者负担较轻，并指出稳定计划改善了劳动收入份额。
Israel's experience indicates that high inflation places an asymmetrically heavy burden on workers, relative to employers and the self-employed. The mechanisms by which this unequally distributed burden is created are through the tax system and exchange-rate policy which altered the relative prices of low labour-intensive tradable goods versus high labour-intensive non-tradable goods. We have shown that the interaction between inflation and taxation resulted in a low tax burden on the business sector and relatively high burden on wage earners. (This ‘inflation tax’ on wage earners does not stem from the traditional depreciation of money balances or the so-called Tanzi effect.) Indeed, the stabilization programme tilted the functional distribution of income in favour of labour.