minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …

social preferences for the lowest-wage workers are relatively strong and the wage elasticity of labor demand relatively small. …

concave tax schedule raises the elasticity of labor supply, which boosts wages. Consequently, optimal marginal tax rates for …

We simulate the effect of the introduction of premium differentiation (experience rating) in the Dutch Unemployment …

We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wagesusing an equilibrium search model which allows for … dispersion ofbenefits and productivity levels, job-to-job transitions, andstructural and frictional unemployment. The estimation … levels.Different causes of structural and frictional unemployment areinvestigated. We investigate the efficiency of the …

context of an unemployment insurance scheme for self-employed, wherewe estimate how much of the transition probability to … unemployment can be causally attributedto being insured. To disentangle moral hazard from adverse selection we use an institutional … featureof the Danish unemployment system that provides an additional motive to choose insurance(an early retirement option). We …

between high wages and low unemployment risk. A higher marginal tax rate shifts the trade-off in favor of low unemployment … risk, whereas a higher tax burden or unemployment benefit has the opposite effect. Changes in unemployment generate fiscal … and that the provision of unemployment insurance justifies a positive marginal tax rate even without income heterogeneity …

We study the existence of a profitable unemployment insurance market in a dynamic economy with adverse selection … job losses matters. In contrast to conventional wisdom, we find that private unemployment insurance in the US can be … profitable for a relatively short exclusion length of one year. To stimulate the emergence of a private unemployment insurance …