This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic growth in a model of endogenous growth and search frictions on the labor market. We analyze how savings and the incentive to create new jobs are affected by tax swaps between wage income taxes, payroll taxes,...

This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic growth in a model of endogenous growth and search frictions on the labor market. We analyze how savings and the incentive to create new jobs are affected by tax swaps between wage income taxes, payroll taxes,...

How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment? The relationship between long-term unemployment and the rate of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed...

Dass die Erklärung von Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ein überaus aktuelles Thema ist, zeigt der starke Anstieg der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in den Industrieländern seit Mitte der 70er Jahre. Die Erhöhung der Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit bei gleichzeitigem Wirtschaftswachstum - sowohl in einer...