educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …

associated with high consumption value and low effort. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in the …

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to their efficient values, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The …

This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in … ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched … increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …

justifies the application of a matching estimator but also allows to take account of threefold heterogeneity. The recently …

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …