TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomas,Alun H.
TI  - The Effects of Tax Wedges on Hours Worked and Unemployment in Sweden
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451922744 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Employment
KW  - imf
KW  - Labor Cost
KW  - Payroll Taxes
KW  - Payroll
KW  - Total Labor Taxes
KW  - Unemployment
KW  - Sweden
N2  - The paper investigates the relationship between labor taxation and unemployment in Sweden by estimating a labor market model that includes a wage-setting locus and labor demand and supply relationships. The study simulates the effect of a 1 percentage point increase in the payroll tax and in total tax rates. The increase in the payroll tax pushes up labor costs by about  1/2 percent over a 5-10 year time horizon. Hours worked fall by 0.5 percent and the unemployment rate rises by 0.3 percentage point. The increase in total tax rates generates a similar result. Therefore, it appears that increases in taxes have adversely affected employment and unemployment in Sweden
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