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In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
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educational type with high consumption value and low effort costs. This increases the skill mismatch and aggregate unemployment in …
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the one hand, wages are lowered and unemployment decreases, on the other hand, the individual labour supply decision is … progressivity is below the actual level. A decomposition approach shows that the optimal level is increased by high unemployment and …
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, it reduces unemployment by exerting downward pressure on wages. This trade-off is quantitatively assessed using a … bargaining and involuntary unemployment. In the simulations carried out using this model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity …
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This paper addresses optimal taxation, when the relationship between consumption and environmental damage is uncertain and treated as a random variable by policy makers. The main purpose is to analyze how additional uncertainty about this relationship affects the optimal unit tax on the...
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This paper analyses tax policy measures within a two sector endogenously growing economy with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of physical capital stock used as a primary production factor in the final good sector. The framework allows to analyse consequences of...
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This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous … (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment …
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. Both marginal tax rates are of ambiguous sign. The tax systems' effects on the wage formation and the unemployment rates …
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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 …
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