re: Corporate income tax is borne primarily by labor and workers, research shows.

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Sure, and this is where I get lost in the literature, to be honest. Let's say there are 2 periods, one before the corp tax, one after. I understand why a company can pass on their tax bill to workers in the form of lower wages. What I can't understand in my mind, intuitively, is why cutting the corp tax rate would incentivize them to raise the wages back to what they were before the corp tax was levied.

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The theory would be that investors interested in profitability would incentivize the company to use tax savings to increase wages, thus attracting better talent and/or compelling better employee performance, which would also drive profitability. I guess.