, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …

We study the incidence of pollution taxes and their impact on unemployment in an analytical general equilibrium … efficiency wage model. We find closed-form solutions for the effect of a pollution tax on unemployment, factor prices, and output …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

-varying tax which is used to finance a fringe benefit. While we use data from the experience-rated unemployment insurance (UI …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased US unemployment benefits … by $600 a week. Theory predicts that FPUC will decrease job applications, and could decrease vacancy creation. We … benefits, which supports our identification assumption. First, we find that a 10% increase in unemployment benefits caused a 3 …