suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

because minimum wage increases unemployment, hence the marginal cost of redistribution is higher which gives a pretext for … high skilled workers to moderate low skilled workers claim for income redistribution. -- unemployment ; political economics …

stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- Uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …

with less perverse effect on unemployment. Time inconsistency is more likely due to lack of credibility than to the short … between government and social partners. -- unemployment ; inequality ; wage rigidity ; time inconsistency …