, no additionalfiring costs and if unemployment benefits are independent of redundancy pay, employment and wellfare … shown, that a fixed payment will lower wages, leave employment and welfare unaffected if there are no wage-dependent taxes … willrise with redundancy payments. If these payments are also a function of previous wages, positive employment effects will be …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 % to 75 %, a … change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed … fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates …

unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the treatmentsʺ …In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …