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Skilled and Unskilled Employment in a Spanish Business Cycle Model

Muñoz, Rafael - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

We analyze to what extent skill heterogeneity in the labor market with different wage formation mechanisms can explain the features of the Spanish labor market. The model assumes two types of workers with differences in skills. Skilled labor sets wages in an efficiency way while unskilled labor...

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Can the Matching Model Account for Spanish Unemployment ?

Fonseca, Raquel; Muñoz, Rafael - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

This paper aims at explaining the dynamics of labor markets in Spain, especially the high persistence of unemployment …

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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity

LEHMANN, Etienne; LUCIFORA, Claudio; MORICONI, Simone; … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

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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On the optimality of search matching equilibrium when workers are risk averse

LEHMANN, Etienne; LINDEN, Bruno VAN DER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2002

unemployment insurance and lower levels of search intensity and output in the second setting. To decenralize these optima …-linear tax schedule and an appropriate level of unemployment benefits. According to the level of the bargaining power, taxation …

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Optimal Income Taxation in an Equilibrium Unemployment Model : Mirrlees meets Pissarides

Mathias, HUNGERBUELHER; Etienne, LEHMANN; PARMENTIER, Alexis - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2003

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to the laissez-faire, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax rates are …

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