Most estimates suggest that workers in the United States bear about 80 to 85% of payroll...
Most estimates suggest that workers in the United States bear about 80 to 85% of payroll taxes.
(a) Given these values of tax incidence, what can you say about the elasticity of labor supply relative to the elasticity of labor demand?
(b) Policymakers are considering an increase in payroll taxes on just firms. Do you anticipate this policy will be effective in shifting the tax burden to firms?
Homework Answers
(a)
The very high tax incidence on workers imply that labor demand is more elastic than labor supply, so firms bear lower tax incidence. Elasticity of labor supply is lower than the elasticity of labor demand.
(b)
Since firms have higher elasticity of labor demand, they will shift a higher burden of new payroll tax to the workers, so the workers have to bear higher tax burden and firms will bear lower tax burden.
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