In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, graduallyexpanding in scope and geographical coverage. This paper investigates the equilibriumimpact of in-work benefits and contrasts it with the traditional partial equilibrium analysis. Wefind under which conditions...

A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-timeunemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as theyprefer. This paper develops a search and matching model to study the design of optimalunemployment insurance in an economy...

Recent research on the behavioral effects of income taxes has to a large extent focused onthe elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus themarginal tax rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel ofSwedish tax payers over the...