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 …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance … markets are missing. The main results are: (i) outsourcing raises unemployment and labor income risk of unskilled workers; (ii … welfare optimal redistribution and unemployment insurance policies …

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen …

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 …

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

unemployment as well as across different subgroups of participants. We find that participating in short-term training reduces the … remaining time in unemployment and moderately increases job stability. Long-term training programs initially prolong the … remaining time in unemployment, but once the scheduled program end is reached participants exit to employment at a much faster …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

public social expenditures and a high unemployment rate are associated with a small positive (or no) immediate impact on …

and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere …This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and …