Arbeitspapier

Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection

This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of magnitude larger than the tax-smoothing results based on Walrasian labor markets, but a few times smaller than the results based on search and matching markets. We analytically characterize selection-modelconsistent wedges and inefficiencies in order to understand optimal tax volatility.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2030

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Fiscal Policy
Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Thema
labor market frictions
hiring costs
efficiency
optimal taxation
labor wedge
zero intertemporal distortions

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chugh, Sanjay K.
Lechthaler, Wolfgang
Merkl, Christian
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2016

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chugh, Sanjay K.
  • Lechthaler, Wolfgang
  • Merkl, Christian
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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