market generate unemployment. Workers differ in productivity. The government does not observe workers' productivity but only …

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 …

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

The efficiency of educational choices is studied in a search-matching model where individuals face a tradeoff …: acquiring formal education or learning while on the job. When their education effort is successful, newcomers directly obtain a … and individuals devote too much effort to formal education. A self-financing tax and subsidy policy restores market …

uses parental education as a measure of exogenous circumstances. An empirical microeconometric model of labour supply in …

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous … (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment … responses. For plausible parameters, our matching environment induces much lower employment tax rates than the usual competitive …