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The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search

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This article develops a framework for analyzing the impact of taxes and transfers on the length of time a person waits to accept a job while receiving transfer payments. It considers the impact of changes in the parameters of a generic tax-transfer system characterized by a guarantee and a tax rate on the costs and benefits of search. The analytical results indicate that increases in guarantees need not increase duration of unemployment-the results for unemployment insurance are a special case of the more general formulation developed in this article. In fact, increases in guarantees and increases in tax rates may shorten the duration of unemployment while decreasing the labor supply of transfer recipients. Copyright 1988 by University of Chicago Press.

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  • Gottschalk, Peter, 1988. "The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Job Search," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 6(3), pages 362-375, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlabec:v:6:y:1988:i:3:p:362-75
    DOI: 10.1086/298187
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    1. Moffitt, Robert A., 2002. "Welfare programs and labor supply," Handbook of Public Economics, in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 34, pages 2393-2430, Elsevier.

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