Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to … reform caused an increase in the transition rate of roughly 10 percent. There is also evidence of anticipatory behavior among …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that pro-portional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unem-ployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … confirms our earlier findings but offers a more convincing explanation for positive and zero transition rates out of … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …