manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal income tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and … endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the income distribution. The sufficient … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

introducing the “dual system” in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform also increased the age eligibility of the … apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to apprentices' wages. Using administrative data and balancing techniques we …

Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that … discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical analysis aims to verify the role of unemployment …, we investigate the relationship between worker’s absences and local unemployment rate (at the provincial level). We find …

unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for … migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …

% lower past average wages and hired workers with 16% lower past average wages. Conditional upon bargaining, workers hired by …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …