賴志芳

This dissertation decomposes labor supply into three margins step by step and studies the relative effects of two adverse labor market institutes on labor supply. Labor supply in Europe declined about 30% relative to the US over the past 3 decades. The decline in labor supply comes from both hours worked per worker
and employment. Some studies attributed the declining hours worked to higher labor taxes, while other studies accredited high unemployment rates in Europe to generous non-employment benefits. Fang and Roger-son (2009) is the only exception which incorporates two margins of labor supply.

Fang and Rogerson (2009) embedded working hours into Pissarides matching model and found that higher labor taxes decrease both hours per worker and employment. The first essay of this dissertation starts from Fang and Rogerson (2009) to compares the relative effects of increases in labor taxes and non-employment benefits on hours per worker and employment and quantifies them.

作者簡介：

賴志芳 Chih-Fang Lai

學 歷: 國立台灣大學經濟學博士

現 職:東吳大學經濟學系專任助理教授

國立台灣大學農業經濟學系兼任助理教授

淡江產經系兼任助理教授

經 歷: 中央研究院經濟研究所博士後研究員

經濟學國際期刊評審委員

(Emerging Markets Finance and Trade,

Bulletin of Economic Research, Pacific Economic Review)

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