Job creators, job creation, and the tax code

Job creators , job creation and the tax code . Adrian Masters

This paper considers the role of the tax code in determining income dispersion and vacancy creation. A "span-of-control" model is embedded into a search and matching environment. A cut to the tax on profits in isolation improves job creation and reduces before-tax income inequality. The impact of a budget-balancing increase in the wage tax depends on the bargaining power of firms. When it is hi...

How 'Job Creators' Think

Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking styles of the entrepreneurs who start and run these businesses, and about whether those styles actually help to grow jobs. Who are more successful: the intuitive, go-with-the-gut types or the coolheaded analysts who don’t m...

Job Creation and Job Destruction in Argentina

J Jo ob b C Cr re ea at ti io on n a an nd d J Jo ob b D De es st tr ru uc ct ti io on n i in n A Ar rg ge en nt ti in na a Development Bank for the "Labor Markets and Globalization Conference", October 2003. We are grateful to Gustavo Marquez and Carolina Czastkiewicz for their useful comments and to Hugo Hopenhayn who kindly gave us the panel data for the years 1989 to 1995. We would also lik...

Job Creation and Destruction

Job Creation, Job Destruction and Labour Demand in Slovenia

This paper uses a unique firm level data base of traditional and newly established private enterprises to investigate gross job flows and labour demand in the transition period in Slovenia. We find that job destruction dominates job creation in the early years of transition, but later in the transition job destruction diminishes. The excess job reallocation rate, a measure for restructuring, is...