Estimating the Welfare Cost of Taxation in a Labour Market with Unemployment and Non-Participation
The standard public finance analysis of the welfare cost of labour income taxation is based on the estimation of labour supply functions that treat unemployed individuals as non-participants. This paper applies econometric models of multinomial discrete choice to the labour market, explicitly allowing individuals to be in any of three possible states (employment, unemployment and non-participation). Based on these estimates, we present calculations of the dead-weight loss of taxes, which turn out to be much larger than those suggested by the standard literature.
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| Length: | 36 pages |
| Date of creation: | 29 Jan 1999 |
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| Handle: | RePEc:ucn:wpaper:199902 |
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