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Optimal Fiscal Policy with Rationing in the Labor Market

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Arantza Gorostiaga () (Universidad del País Vasco)

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This paper studies the implications for the optimal policy of introducing an exogenous minimum wage into a standard public finance model. We present a dynamic general equilibrium model with a Ramsey planner deciding about public spending, labor income taxes and debt. We find that, for sufficiently high minimum wages, equilibria in which the labor supply is rationed and involuntary unemployment arises may be optimal in bad times. For not too high minimum wages, the government will set taxes to reduce labor supply and avoid non desirable rationing. As regards the cyclical properties of the optimal policy, state contingent returns on debt are used as shock absorbers so as to smooth private consumption over time and across states of nature.

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Paper provided by Centro de Estudios Andaluces in its series Economic Working Papers at Centro de Estudios Andaluces with number E2004/10.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Keywords: Ramsey problem; disequilibrium theory; minimum wage; involuntary unemployment;

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C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming
E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation

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  1. Arantza Gorostiage & Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez, 2004. "Optimal Minimum Wage in a Competitive Economy," DFAEII Working Papers 200407, University of the Basque Country - Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II. [Downloadable!]
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