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Unemployment Insurance, Taxes, and Unemployment

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  • Randall Wright
  • Janine Loberg

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Unemployment insurance is financed by a tax on wages below a given ceiling. Daniel S. Hamermesh (1977) advocates raising this ceiling on distributional grounds. In a job-search model, this does decrease unemployment among low-wage workers, but also increases unemployment among high-wage workers, and lowers everyone's expected after-tax wage. An increase in the ceiling, combined with a proportionate reduction in the tax rate, decreases unemployment for low-wage workers while increasing their after-tax wage, without affecting high-wage workers at all. When unemployment benefits and wages are taxed at one rate, employment and wages are independent of that rate.

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  • Randall Wright & Janine Loberg, 1987. "Unemployment Insurance, Taxes, and Unemployment," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 20(1), pages 36-54, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:20:y:1987:i:1:p:36-54
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    1. Jeremy Greenwood & Nezih Guner, 2009. "Marriage and Divorce since World War II: Analyzing the Role of Technological Progress on the Formation of Households," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2008, Volume 23, pages 231-276, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Boğaçhan Çelen & Saltuk Özertürk, 2012. "Acquisition Of Information To Diversify Contractual Risk," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 53(1), pages 133-156, February.
    3. Richard Rogerson & Robert Shimer & Randall Wright, 2004. "Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market-A Survey," NBER Working Papers 10655, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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