show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …

Before 1979, unemployment insurance (UI) benefits were not treated as taxable income in the United States. Several … has had the predicted effect of reducing unemployment duration.The study uses data on a sample of persons that filed for … presents persuasive evidence of a tax effect on unemployment duration. The 1979 policy change is estimated to have reduced …

states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … functions show that increased unemployment among married men has a sizeable short-run effect on both participation and …

, which was particularly strong in the second half of the 90s, is a major aspect of the downward trends in unemployment and … and the unemployment rate, because a nonparticipant who wants to work has (i) a higher probability of entering the labor … force (compared to other nonparticipants), and (ii) a higher probability of joining unemployment conditional on entering the …

the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …

. In the more recent work, attention has shifted to effects on unemployment in low-wage demographic groups, such as … distinction between minimum wage effects on employment and those on unemployment. The purpose of this paper is to explore the … analytical distinction between employment and unemployment effects in the hope of providing some understanding of the …