endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when … designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates result in new … marginal tax rates to raise the unemployment rate for the high-skilled and lower it for the low-skilled workers. …

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which … unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain …-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are viewed as the outcome of the interplay between labor market shocks and prolonged …

newcomers. This social phenomenon and affects wages and unemployment. We show that the growth in the unemployment and social …

that all the shortrun fluctuations automatically turn into long-run changes in the unemployment rate. We assert the …

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the … effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit … find fairly robust evidence suggesting that the actual generosity of UI does matter for regional unemployment. Increases in …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …

This study evaluates the long-term cost of unemployment in Finland by focusing on the deep recession period of the … early 1990s. The number of plant closures increased sharply during the recession and the unemployment rate rose by more than … 13 percentage points. In the analysis, prime working-age men who face unemployment due to plant closure are matched to …