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 …

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 …