TAX POLICIES AND THE LABOR MARKET CONSTRAINED FARM HOUSEHOLD: THEORETICAL RESULTS AND EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM HOUSEHOLD DATA

Thomas Glauben and Christian H.C.A. Henning

No 19700, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: The study is devoted to the comparative static analysis and econometric estimation of farm household decisions under both standard and agricultural taxes. To account for labor markets constraints a non-separable model is constructed implying increasing per-unit costs of accessing labor markets. To control for tax-induced adjustments related to labor market imperfections we compare the results to those derived from a separable approach, assuming perfect labor markets. Theoretical results suggest that most tax-induced responses are ambivalent mainly caused by shadow prices effects. Further, tax-induced effects differ between the two model versions. In particular standard taxes may imply production adjustments in the case of non-separability. Thus, income and value-added taxes are no more necessarily superior to agricultural taxes. Econometric analysis using individual household data from Mid-West Poland indicates remarkable responses to market surplus and input taxes. In contrast, standard and land taxes imply only negligible production adjustments. Thus, they seem to be superior, at least in the Polish case.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19700

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