This note presents evidence of the following gender asymmetry: the job-finding effort of married men and women is affected by the income of their spouses in opposite directions. For women, spouse income influences job finding negatively, just as own wealth does: the more the man earns and the...

This project employs the theory of opportunity, described in Roemer''s book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries equalize opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality...

This paper studies situations where a single buyer with uncertain demand wishes to buy from a small number of suppliers. In this setting it is well understood that supply function bidding results in the product not being produced at the lowest cost, that is, in the loss of production efficiency....

This paper studies the unemployment insurance and redistribution policy of a government who contemplates using workfare. We consider a population composed of employed and unemployed workers as well as individuals who do not seek employment (non-workers). Job search behavior is private...

This paper studies labour market policy in a society where differently gifted individuals can invest in training to further increase their labour market productivity. Furthermore, the government seeks both efficiency and equity. Frictions in the matching process create unemployment and...