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

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to their efficient values, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax …

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 …

article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …

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 …