I consider the case for the minimum wage alongside (optimal) income taxes when workers differ in both wages and working …

This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding …

In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the … development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We … low wages and too high output prices. Our results support this hypothesis of a `risk-compensated price-mechanism'. We also …

This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers …

We investigate experimentally the economic effects of wage taxation to finance unemployment benefits for a closed … the dynamic interaction between the wage tax and unemployment. (ii) Employment is boosted by budget deficits but … subsequent tax rate adjustments to balance the budget lead to employment levels substantially lower than theoretically predicted …

Progressive income taxes moderate wage demands by trade unions and thereby reduce unemployment, but alsothey reduce … education subsidies and steep tax rates is more likely to prevail the larger the power oftrade unions to set wages, the better …