with five margins of labor supply: labor market participation, hours worked, job search, retirement, and on … retirement age to 68 years, may limit the tax increases to 4 percentage points of value added tax and reduce the decline of per …

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. -- Outsourcing ; unemployment ; social insurance …

unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and … the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income risk. The unemployment rate partly reflects the country's exposure to … globalization; (ii) corporate taxation and social insurance have equivalent effects on unemployment and outbound FDI; (iii) while an …

search unemployment. Long-run analytical results for the small open economy identify capital accumulation as a prime … transmission channel. The effects of integration on unemployment, however, depend importantly on the nature of wage taxation and … unemployment compensation. As a separate methodological contribution, we extend a dynamic CGE model for Germany to allow for search …