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Tax reform, unemployment, and fertility

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  • Minoru Watanabe

    (Research Fellow, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University/Hokusei Gakuen University)

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This breif article describes the development of a simple overlapping generations model with unemployment and endogenous fertility to analyze the impact of increasing capital income tax. We find that higher capital income tax promotes employment and fertility.

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  • Minoru Watanabe, 2021. "Tax reform, unemployment, and fertility," Discussion Papers 2128, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
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