the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but …We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … subsequent tax rate adjustments to balance the budget lead to employment levels substantially lower than theoretically predicted …

as employment, requires an understanding of spatial (or spatio-temporal) autocorrelation effects associated with a … pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

unemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of trade unions and the other …

unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of … unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an outlier when using a simple model of the relationship between … unemployment and the rate of business ownership. The model is calibrated using recent data of 23 OECD countries. It shows a minor …

We study optimal government spending in a business cycle model with frictional unemployment. The Ramsey optimal policy … consumption is always countercyclical); iii) stabilizes employment, in some cases even at the cost of higher consumption …

This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …