We study the incidence of pollution taxes and their impact on unemployment in an analytical general equilibrium … efficiency wage model. We find closed-form solutions for the effect of a pollution tax on unemployment, factor prices, and output …

Many countries have policies aimed at creating jobs in depressed areas with high unemployment rates. In standard … develop a stylized model of frictional local labor markets with the goal of studying the efficiency of unemployment … housing costs, and lower unemployment rates. Although workers can move freely to arbitrage away differences in expected …

-varying tax which is used to finance a fringe benefit. While we use data from the experience-rated unemployment insurance (UI …

taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European … decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis … suggests that the reform on job security had no significant effect on the aggregate rate of unemployment …

youth unemployment rates. We also analyze the firm-level effects of the tax cut. We sort firms by the size of the tax …

recovered but unemployment lingered). This paper presents a model that captures these three facts. The key elements of the model …