This paper develops a joint evaluation of vocational training and unemployment insurance.This allows to analyze how these schemes complement each other from theviewpoints of labor market indicators and of welfare. For this purpose, a generalequilibrium matching model is built where workers are...

We derive a general optimal income tax formula when individuals respond along both the intensiveand extensive margins and when income effects can prevail. Individuals are heterogeneous across twodimensions: their skill and their disutility of participation. Preferences over consumption and...

We consider an optimal nonlinear income tax problem in a model with search-matching unemployment and where the negotiated pre-tax wage decreases with mar-ginal tax rate but increases with the level of tax. By omitting labor supply responsesand assuming bene?t for the unemployed and an e¢ cient...