side, we characterize the first- and second-best optimal tax structures, for both exogenous and endogenous labor supply. …

We study the effect of the social environment on the quantity and quality of voluntary labor contributions. By …

labor retrenchment policies have a negative impact on net privatization prices, even after taking sample selection bias and …

during unemployment mitigate these losses but also affect the unemployed's willingness to search. This paper analyzes how … mandatory training programs affect the optimal design of unemployment insurance and how the training intensity should evolve … during the unemployment spell. The introduction of training reverses the optimal consumption dynamics during the unemployment …

non-market activities. Search-matching frictions on the labor markets create unemployment. Wages, labor demand and … distorts labor demand upwards. The marginal tax rate is positive at the top of the skill distribution even when the latter is …

hiring at least 20% of their labor force locally. Drawing from a unique geo-referenced dataset of unemployment spells in the … unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption (about one third of total labor costs) to firms … unemployment duration, distinguishing between short- and medium-term effects. This is done by implementing an original two …

points among affected women. The reforms had large spillover effects on the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by 12.5 percentage points among men and by 11 … healthy workers either continued to retire early via disability benefits or bridged the gap to the ERA via unemployment …