Bagger, Jesper; Moen, Espen R.; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2021
workers search to climb a job ladder and firms post vacancies. Workers differ in abilities. Jobs differ in productivities and … competitive search equilibrium maximizes after-tax utility subject to resource constraints and the tax policy. A higher tax rate … distorts search effort, job ranking and vacancy creation. Distortions vary on the job ladder, but always result in deadweight …