We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the distribution. The sufficient statistics are … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the … ; unemployment …

, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). -- Employment ; job search ; human capital ; risk aversion … ; wages …

of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching …

employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment …, these policies increased unemployment by nearly 4 percentage points, but reduced COVID-19 cases by 186,600- 311,000, and …

The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering … is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the …

economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …