The notion of frictional unemployment first arose in the writings of Beveridge, Pigou and Hicks. Why did it fail at the … unemployment result in particular. We make our claim in three steps. First, we make explicit the trade-organization assumptions … underpinning Marshall’s equilibrium theory. Our second step is a study of the attempts at introducing unemployment in a Marshallian …

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 …

Our paper studies two attempts at integrating unemployment in macroeconomics. The first, due to Diamond, consists in a …

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 …

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 …