changed. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment …

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …

endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems’ effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …

and "services" are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …

This paper explores the rationale for unemployment benefits as a complement to optimal non-linear income taxation. High … higher unemployment risk, we find that there is a case for over-insuring the low-skilled, hence the unemployment benefits of …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment. …