The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …

producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

unemployment benefits; we find that the MW is preferred by the majority of workers (even when the unemployed receive very generous … unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods … given generosity of the unemployment benefit scheme, the maximum, politically viable, MW is lower than in the absence of in …