moderating effect and also because employment of low-paid workers is more elastic to wages. We test these theoretical predictions … suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule …

outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders’ opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also … address the more complex, and open, question of how employment and unemployment move through time, in response to labor market …This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory …

workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty …: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The unemployment vouchers are targeted exclusively at the unemployed (especially the …

tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages …

taxation it is important to bear in mind that one of the reasons for introducing them is to make employment more likely for … for the entire (simulated) distribution of wages of the non-employed and shows interesting differences between the effects …

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a … unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining …

We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in …'s. Tax policy simulations suggest that moving from joint taxation for married couples to separate taxation of each spouse … would go a small step in the direction of equalizing market and non-market work of spouses. Selective taxation with smaller …

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 …