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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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exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only …-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to …
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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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Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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