average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These … the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a …This paper argues that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule reduces …

This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 …

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We … profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are analyzed in scenarios which differ with respect to the constraints …

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

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 …

unemployment benefits. A lower tax on labour increases net wages and - for certain benefit-systems - unemployment benefits as well …We investigate how continental European unemployment can be reduced without reducing unemployment benefits and without … reducing the net income of low-wage earners. Lower unemployment replacement rates reduce unemployment, the net wage and …

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. …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …