Don Schlagenhauf’s research while affiliated with Florida State University and other places

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Publications (7)


The Kansas Tax Experiment: The Matter of Legal Form of Organization
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October 2021

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1 Citation

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Shi Qi

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Don Schlagenhauf

Using a dynamic stochastic occupational choice model with heterogeneous firms, this paper studies a sweeping business tax-cut program enacted in the State of Kansas during 2012-2016. This paper finds that “The Kansas Tax Experiment” distorts entrepreneurial choice of legal form of organization (LFO), and encourages the adoption of the pass-through status over the C-corporate legal form. Because pass-through businesses face more constraints on access-to-capital, the policy reduces aggregate productive efficiency and leads to declines in output, capital formation, and employment growth. This article highlights the importance of considering LFO choice when making a business tax policy change.



Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment

October 2018

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26 Reads

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23 Citations

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

A dynamic stochastic occupational choice model with heterogeneous agents is developed to evaluate the impact of a corporate income tax reduction on employment. In this framework, the key margin is the endogenous entrepreneurial choice of the legal form of organization. A reduction in the corporate income tax burden encourages adoption of the C corporation legal form, which reduces capital constraints on firms. Improved capital reallocation increases the overall productive efficiency in the economy and therefore expands the labor market. Relative to the benchmark economy, a corporate income tax cut can reduce the nonemployment rate by up to 7 percent.





Citations (4)


... This is also consistent with the fact that high taxation rates and payroll affect unemployment, because tax increases and high wages lead to an increase in product costs and enterprises' decreased competitiveness. As a result, the enterprise may downsize or go bankrupt, so some studies have attempted to provide direct evidence of the general equilibrium effect of the corporate income tax on unemployment using cross-country data (Stiglitz, 1999;Chen et al., 2018). Additionally, empirical studies have provided evidence that high corporate tax rates impact unemployment. ...

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Corporation income taxation impact on unemployment rate: VAR model approach
Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment
  • Citing Article
  • October 2018

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

... Not all interventions are alike, however. For instance, Qi and Schlagenhauf (2018) document that the federal government and the four largest provinces in Canada spend almost half of the corporate income tax revenue. They are not incredibly successful due to dynamic effects, necessitating to raise taxes or cut program spending in the future. ...

On Corporate Income Taxes, Employment, and Wages
  • Citing Article
  • January 2018

... Factors influencing corporate hiring decisions can be broadly categorized into two types. The first category involves macroeconomic environment analysis, which posits that macro-level institutions and policy environments, including labor policies (Totty, 2017), tax policies (Chen et al., 2018), fiscal policies (Bredemeier et al., 2020;X. Liu et al., 2023), market frictions (Belenzon and Tsolmon, 2016), banking regulations (S. ...

Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment
  • Citing Article
  • January 2017

... The main reform scenarios considered in World Bank (2020) assume that the additional revenue from the reform is used to finance a uniform decrease in the PIT rate. 62. Examples of studies considering the effect of reducing the difference in tax treatments between incorporated and unincorporated businesses include Carroll, Joulfaian (1997) and Chen et al. (2018) . Studies on the subject usually find that policies harmonizing these tax treatments have important positive effects on the number of unincorporated businesses deciding to incorporate, on their future growth prospects and on their contribution to net job creation. ...

Corporate Income Tax, Legal Form of Organization, and Employment
  • Citing Article
  • January 2017