Child policy solutions for the unemployment problem

Luciano Fanti and Luca Gori ()

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 109, issue 3, 147-149

Abstract: Using a simple overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility, minimum wages and involuntary unemployment, it is shown that the child tax can be used as an instrument to promote population growth and restore full employment.

Keywords: Child; tax; Fertility; OLG; model; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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