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Optimal income taxation with endogenous participation and search unemployment

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor); … - 2008

dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create … unemployment. Wages, labor demand and participation are endogenous. The government only observes wage levels. Under a Maximin … general utilitarian objective. Taking account of the wage-cum-labor demand margin deeply changes the equity-efficiency trade …

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Earnings-related severance pay

Goerke, Laszlo - 2006

In an efficiency wage economy, lump-sum severance pay from which shirkers can be excluded raises employment. However, severance payments are usually related to wages. It is shown that earnings-related, mandated severance pay will have ambiguous employment effects if effort can be varied...

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Corporate and personal income tax declarations

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2006

Decisions by firms and individuals on the extent of their tax payments have generally been treated as separate choices. Empirically, a positive relationship between corporate and personal income tax evasion can be observed. The theoretical analysis in this paper shows that a manager's decision...

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Search frictions on product and labor markets : money in the matching function

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor); … - 2007

This paper builds a macroeconomic model of equilibrium unemployment in which firms persistently face difficulties in selling their production and this affects their decisions to create jobs. Due to search-frictions on the product market, equilibrium unemployment is a U-shaped function of the...

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Unemployment insurance savings accounts and collective wage determination

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2007

Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) entitle workers to unemployment benefits at the expense of future pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In the present paper the wage and employment consequences of...

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A positive theory of the earnings relationship of unemployment benefits

Goerke, Laszlo (contributor); Pannenberg, Markus (contributor) - 2007

Evidently, the benefit-structure of the unemployment insurance has a significant influence on profits and trade union utility. We show for a wage bargaining model that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment benefits may reduce wages and increase employment. This raises the question as...

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A simple theory of optimal redistributive taxation with equilibrium unemployment

Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis - 2010

, agents are endowed with different skill levels and labor markets are perfectly segmented by skill. The government only … observes negotiated wages. More progressive taxation leads to wage moderation that boosts labor demand. We design the optimal … nonlinear redistributive tax schedule in the absence of welfare benefits and extensive labor supply margin. Compared to their …

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Optimal redistributive taxation with both extensive and intensive responses

Jacquet, Laurence; Lehmann, Etienne; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2010

This paper characterizes optimal income taxation when individuals respond along both the intensive and extensive margins. Individuals are heterogeneous across two dimensions: specifically, their skill and disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and work effort can differ with...

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Monitoring, sanctions and front-loading of job search in a non-stationary model

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel; Launov, Andrey; Van der … - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Employment effects of labour taxation in an efficiency wage model with alternative budget constraints and time horizons

Goerke, Laszlo - 2000

In an efficiency wage economy with variable profits, a shift from payroll to employment taxes will reduce unemployment if the tax level is held constant at the initial wage. However, unemployment will rise if firms are constrained to zero profits in the long-run and if tax revenues are constant....

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