the level of the profit tax. The question of wheather there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited …

unemployment. As long as the labour tax rate exceeds the energy tax rate, such a reform will increase employment, reduce the … reduction in unemployment is welfare increasing since energy, which the country has to buy at its true national opportunity cost …

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labour taxes and unemployment varies … stronger in the highly industrialised North than in the underdeveloped South, where unemployment is much higher. An important … source of variation in the regional responsiveness of unemployment originates from the fact that regional gross wages in the …

the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …

, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …

setting, and a fixed exchange rate implies wage rigidity and involuntary unemployment. The long run effects on instantaneous …

-tradable sector and features unemployment in general equilibrium. Firms in both sectors use labour and an imported polluting factor of … production ("energy"). A tax on energy, recycled to reduce the payroll tax, will in general affect equilibrium unemployment in …