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| Michaelis, Jochen; Birk, Angela. |
| This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic growth in a model of endogenous growth and search frictions on the labor market. We analyze how savings and the incentive to create new jobs are affected by tax swaps between wage income taxes, payroll taxes, capital income taxes and taxes levied on capital costs. In our framework, the payroll tax is found to be neutral. If this tax is used to finance a cut in the capital income tax, we will observe an increase in both growth and, via the capitalization effect, employment. Most other tax reforms, however, imply a trade-off between employment and growth. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Search unemployment; Growth; Tax reform; Public Economics; E6; H2; J6; O4. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26275 |
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| Birk, Angela. |
| The paper develops a sequential migration model and derives a worker's optimal policies for migration and employment. With the worker's simulated reservation wage functions for employment and migration, a stationary equilibrium is defined. In that equilibrium, stationary distributions of employed and unemployed stayers and movers over different states are derived. The analysis of Markov equilibria shows that mainly unemployed skilled and unskilled migrants will migrate. I have referred to this unemployed self-selection of skilled and unskilled migrants. Furthermore, in the stationary equilibrium, a trade off between equity and efficiency is derived and represents the adverse effects when a government fosters income increases too much. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Sequential Migration; Markov Equilibria; German Reunification; Labor and Human Capital; C61; E27; J61. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26338 |
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| Birk, Angela. |
| How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment? The relationship between long-term unemployment and the rate of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed resulting from skill-depreciation. For innovation economies characterized by high steady-state levels of capital intensities the model shows that, due to a capitalization effect and a qualification-mismatch effect, increasing technological progress has adverse implications for long-term unemployment. Furthermore, for imitation economies with low steady-state capital intensities increasing technological progress can be either favorable or less favorable for long-term... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Long-term unemployment; Mismatch; Growth; Search; Matching; Labor and Human Capital; E24; J41; O41. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26181 |
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| Birk, Angela. |
| How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching-model is developed, in which the unemployment pool consists of heterogeneous unemployed workers, short-term and long-term unemployed, and with an endogenous skill-depreciation of the long-term unemployed emerging as technical progress accelerates. For innovation countries characterized by rapid technical progress we show that through subsidizing vacancy creation which causes a substitution and an income effect long-term unemployment can be reduced. Since the positive substitution effect implied by subsidizing vacancy creation outweighs the negative income effect induced by taxing the household's income, a positive employment effect results... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Long-term unemployment; Growth; Search; Matching; Subsidies; Labor and Human Capital; E24; J41; O41. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/26194 |
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