We estimate the responses of gross labor income with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003–2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and payroll-tax schedules affecting individuals who earn less than twice the minimum wage. Our estimate...

Conventional income distribution statistics subtract taxes from household income but do not take into account the distributional effects of the services financed through these taxes. As many of the functions of government are available to the population free of charge or at a subsidised rate,...

This report looks at the effects on the distribution of household income of those government-provided services that confer a personal benefit to users. While most of the comparative evidence of the size and evolution of income inequalities in OECD countries relies on the concept of household...

This report looks at the effects on the distribution of household income of those government-provided services that confer a personal benefit to users. While most of the comparative evidence of the size and evolution of income inequalities in OECD countries relies on the concept of household...

A dynamic labour matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance (UI) or unemployment assistance (UA), and the employees are either eligible for UI or UA upon future separations. Eligibility for UI requires a minimum duration of contributions...

We develop a structural non-stationary model of job search in the fashion of van den Berg (1990). Non-stationarity comes from the duration-dependence in benefits, in the arrival rate of job offers, and in wage offers. The model is then estimated using the French sample of the ECHP Survey...

We analyze the implications of two-tier unemployment compensation systems with non-automatic eligibility in an equilibrium matching model with Nash bargaining. As eligibility for UI does not automatically follow from employment, the two types of unemployed workers have different threat points,...

[fre] Même si le salaire proposé n’est pas le seul motif de refus possible, un emploi mal rémunéré est plus difficilement accepté. La notion de «salaire de réserve» rend compte de ce fait: le salaire de réserve d’un chômeur, défini comme le salaire minimal en dessous duquel ce...

[fre] En janvier 1998, 26 % des allocataires du RMI de décembre 1996 ont un emploi, 17 % sont inactifs et 57 % sont chômeurs. Les trois quarts de ces chômeurs cherchent activement un emploi et les plus actifs dans leur recherche ont une plus grande probabilité d’en trouver un. L’effort...