Non-Linear Employment Effects of Tax Policy
Domenico Ferraro and
Giuseppe Fiori
No 1333, International Finance Discussion Papers from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Abstract:
We study the non-linear propagation mechanism of tax policy in a heterogeneous agent equilibrium business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and an extensive margin of employment adjustment. The model exhibits endogenous job destruction and endogenous hiring standards in the form of occasionally-binding zero-surplus constraints. After parameterizing the model using U.S. data, we find that the dynamic response of employment to a temporary change in the labor income tax is highly non-linear, displaying sizable asymmetries and state-dependence. Notably, the response to a tax rate cut is at least twice as large in a recession as in an expansion.
Keywords: Search frictions; Job destruction; Heterogeneity; Aggregation; Tax policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E12 E24 E32 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-12-20
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DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2021.1333
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