This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to their efficient values, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax …

market generate unemployment. Workers differ in productivity. The government does not observe workers’ productivity but only …

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the … disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more … implement broad-based reform strategies. Our analysis suggests that major unemployment policies are characterised by economic …

potential participants. Our econometric analysis uses unusually informative data originating from administrative unemployment … and social security records. We apply a matching estimator adapted for the case of multiple programmes. We find …

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched … increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous … (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment … responses. For plausible parameters, our matching environment induces much lower employment tax rates than the usual competitive …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The …

The efficiency of educational choices is studied in a search-matching model where individuals face a tradeoff …: acquiring formal education or learning while on the job. When their education effort is successful, newcomers directly obtain a … and individuals devote too much effort to formal education. A self-financing tax and subsidy policy restores market …