Nous etudions les consequences de l'indexation de l'assurance chomage sur le dernier salaire recu dans un modele de negociations salariales. Nous montrons que la hausse de l'allocation d'assurance chomage peut diminuer le taux de chomage si les travailleurs sont suffisammnet averses au risque....

This article wonders why wage rigidity institutions are so widely effective in OECD countries whereas fiscal instruments can more efficiently redistribute income from high skilled to low skilled workers withj lower unemployment.

This article studies the link between the properties of wage bargaining models and the hypothesis concerning the determination of the unemployment benefits.

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are...