the level of the profit tax. The question of whether there is unemployment or not turns out to be less important. …

18 September 2005 to reduce the unemployment insurance contributions by 2 percent and to finance this with an increase in … tax reform does not reduce unemployment; neither in the short to medium run, nor in the long run. When there is short …-to-medium-run real wage resistance, then in the short to medium run unemployment depends on the overall tax burden, but not on the …

sectors or regions with high rates of unemployment. Conventional economic wisdom would suggest that the most efficient way to … subsidies and develop a simple model with unemployment to explain this phenomenon. In our model, unemployment arises due to …

energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue … production. The resulting reduction in unemployment is welfare increasing since energy, which the country has to buy at its true …

energy and is stuck in an unemployment situation resulting from an excessive fixed net-of-tax wage rate. We study a revenue … production. The resulting reduction in unemployment is welfare increasing since energy, which the country has to buy at its true …

By focusing on the Italian experience, we ask whether the relationship between labor taxes and unemployment varies … stronger in the highly industrialized North than in the less developed South, where unemployment is much higher. An important … source of variation in the regional responsiveness of unemployment originates from the fact that regional gross wages in the …

-tradable sector and features unemployment in general equilibrium. Firms in both sectors use labour and an imported polluting factor of … production (”energy”). A tax on energy, recycled to reduce the payroll tax, will in general affect equilibrium unemployment in …