that labour markets clear competitively. At least for Europe which has been suffering fom high unemployment for a long time …, this assumption does not seem appropriate. This paper studies the optimal factor taxation in the presence of unemployment … the private sector playing a Nash game. The main conclusion is that in the presence of unemployment, the conventional …

that labour markets clear competitively. At least for Europe, which has been suffering from high unemployment f or a long … unemployment which results from the union-firm wage bargaining both with optimal and restricted profit taxation when capital is … the private sector playing a Nash game. The main conclusion is that in the presence of unemployment, the conventional …