Taxes, Health Care Provision and Aggregate Hours of Work

Richard Rogerson

Global Economic Review, 2016, vol. 45, issue 3, 222-232

Abstract: A recent literature has studied the role of increases in labor taxes and transfers on the evolution of hours of work across OECD countries. Much of this literature studies this issue in a one sector model. This paper develops a two sector model in order to assess various features of health care financing on aggregate hours of work. A key result is that when health care is publicly financed but rationed, the distortion on aggregate hours of work is large and independent of the tax required to finance the system. Moreover, this effect increases over time as aggregate income increases.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/1226508X.2016.1211806

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