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23. A textbook macro-economic model 87

The IS-LM model 87

The production function 89

Dynamics versus statics 90

Phillipscurve 90

Macro-economic interactions 91

24. Heterogeneity and nonlinear taxation 92

Heterogeneity versus homogeneity 92

Nonlinear versus proportional taxation 93

Some literature 93

25. Summary of current views 94

A simple view 94

A complex view 96

Efficiency wages intermezzo 96

A more sophisticated view 97

Confusions 98

26. Heterogeneous labour 99

Dromedary supply 99

Dutch income distribution data 100

Definitions and formulas 102

Amendment to the textbook model on the Phillipscurve 106

27. Subsistence 106

Definitions 107

Economic literature 109

Types of indexation 109

Formal development 110

28. Phillipscurve 115

Concepts 115

A homogeneous Phillipscurve 118

On expectations 121

Heterogeneous Phillipscurves 122

More factors that cause a shift 122

Crowding out 123

Poverty 124

The submarket Phillipscurves 125

Shifting back 125

29. Tax basics 126

Taxes and premiums 126

Common structure 127

Nonlinear tax function 128

Exemption 129

The marginal rate 140

Balanced growth 143

Off balanced growth 144

30. Dynamic curvature of the tax wedge 145

Introduction 145

Formulas 145

Graphs 147

31. Differential impact of the minimum wage on exposed and sheltered sectors 149

Introduction 149

Model 151

Graphs 152

Tables 154

Conclusion 155

32. Dynamic optimality 155

The Phillipscurve revisited 155

Investment, growth and productivity 156

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