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the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal … monetary growth rate decreases with the workers' bargaining power, the level of unemployment benefits and the payroll tax rate …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …
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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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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 …
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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 …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job-seekers made. From the data and the model, we identify the distributions of four key variables:...
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