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the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in long-term unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …
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A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor … 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact unexplained by existing research focusing on job finding rates … causally link our empirical findings to the reduction in longterm unemployment benefits using a heterogeneous-agent labor …
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workforce, and labor market institutions …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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Wages grow and become more unequal as workers age. Economic theory focuses on worker investment in human capital, search for employers, and residual wage shocks to account for these life cycle wage dynamics. We highlight the importance of jobs: collections of tasks and duties defined by...
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We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …
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We study asset-tested unemployment insurance in an incomplete markets model with moral hazard during job search. Asset … incentive to save and fewer private resources are used for consumption smoothing during unemployment. Our results show that in a … time-discount factors. We conclude that the current U.S. unemployment insurance system is approximately optimal. …
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this observation, we ask how unemployment insurance policy should take the individual financial situation into account. We … use a quantitative model with a realistically calibrated unemployment insurance system, individual consumption …-saving decision and moral hazard during job search to answer this question and find that the optimal policy provides unemployment …
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