Optimal fiscal policy with labor selection

Sanjay Chugh, Wolfgang Lechthaler and Christian Merkl

No 2030, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: This paper characterizes long-run and short-run optimal fiscal policy in the labor selection framework. In a calibrated non-Ramsey decentralized equilibrium, labor market volatility is inefficient. Keeping fixed the structural parameters, the Ramsey government achieves efficient labor market volatility; doing so requires labor-income tax volatility that is orders of magnitude larger than the tax-smoothing results based on Walrasian labor markets, but a few times smaller than the results based on search and matching markets. We analytically characterize selection-modelconsistent wedges and inefficiencies in order to understand optimal tax volatility.

Keywords: labor market frictions; hiring costs; efficiency; optimal taxation; labor wedge; zero intertemporal distortions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 E50 E62 E63 J20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-lma, nep-mac and nep-pbe
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