the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

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 …

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The … robustness of these properties is also discussed. -- Optimal income taxation ; unemployment ; matching …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …