Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Michael Burda and Mark Weder

No 2010-17, Adelaide Economics Working Papers from Adelaide University, School of Economics

Abstract: Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary in uence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical uctuations in a nonmonetary economy with labor market frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget renders gross wages more rigid over the cycle and, as a result, strengthens the modelÂ’s endogenous propagation mechanism. For conventional calibrations, the model generates a negatively sloped Beveridge curve as well as substantial volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment.

Keywords: business cycles; labor markets; payroll taxes; unemployment; consumption-tightness puzzle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41https://media.adelaide.edu.au/economics/
Date: 2010-08
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