and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …

This paper reviews the Italian unemployment experience, analyzing in particular the time-series behavior of … unemployment rates along the path that brought Italy into Europe s Economic and Monetary Union, and their disaggregated structure … across geographical and demographic dimensions. High aggregate unemployment is a reflection of highly concentrated …

labor supply and equilibrium unemployment in representative agent models. The impact of tax policy on labor market … unemployment benefits. In non-competitive labor markets, employment declines if a higher tax burden makes the outside option (i ….e. unemployment) relatively more attractive. Marginal tax rates typically differ substantially across individuals. To explore the …

The Danish labour market has undergone a remarkable change during the 1990s with a reduction of the unemployment rate … unemployment insurance system. This paper offers an overview of the developments in the Danish labour market during the 1990s, and … reviews the major policy shifts, as well as possible explanations of the remarkable reduction in unemployment. …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …