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Employment, Hours per Worker and Taxes: A Life-Cycle Analysis

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  • Richard Rogerson
  • Johanna Wallenius

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We build a life cycle model of labor supply in which individuals choose both the fraction of life spent in employment and hours while employed. We develop a simple graphical representation of the steady state equilibrium labor supply choice and show that a tax on labor income used to finance a lump-sum transfer leads to a reduction of labor supply along both margins. These effects are consistent with the patterns observed in cross-country data.

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  • Richard Rogerson & Johanna Wallenius, 2009. "Employment, Hours per Worker and Taxes: A Life-Cycle Analysis," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 95-96, pages 105-119.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2009:i:95-96:p:105-119
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    1. Gonzalo Llosa & Lee Ohanian & Andrea Raffo & Richard Rogerson, 2014. "Firing Costs and Labor Market Fluctuations: A Cross-Country Analysis," 2014 Meeting Papers 533, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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