suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

We study the consequences of a working time reduction (WTR hereafter) in an exogenous growth model with unemployment …

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 …

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 …

This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level … very low, increasing its level or providing liquidity to the agent can decrease the duration in unemployment; for higher …