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Labor Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production

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  • Holmlund Bertil

    (Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden)

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Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i.e. unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer hold. This paper uses a search equilibrium model with home production to examine the employment and welfare implications of labor taxes. The employment effect of a rise in a proportional tax is found to be negative for sufficiently low replacement rates, whereas it is ambiguous for moderate and high replacement rates. Numerical calibrations of the model indicate that employment generally falls when labor taxes are raised.

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  • Holmlund Bertil, 2002. "Labor Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production," German Economic Review, De Gruyter, vol. 3(4), pages 415-430, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:germec:v:3:y:2002:i:4:p:415-430
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-0475.00066
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