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 …

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 …