In this paper, we study the effect of skill-biased technological change on unemployment when benefits are linked to the … workers and hence their wage leads to an increase in average income and hence in benefits. The increased fallback income, in … unskilled when benefits are endogenous. The model provides a theoretical explanation for diverging developments in wage …

economically-oriented cost-benefit-analysis alone is not adequate due to a municipality's role as "consumer and role model". To … criteria such as innovativeness, cost effectiveness, external costs, CO2 reduction potential, local value or effort of …

components using yearly UK data covering 1977-2018. We examine cash and in-kind benefits, and direct and indirect taxes. In … benefits are largely associated with cyclical changes in average benefit rates. In contrast, trends in the redistributive … effects of direct and indirect taxes are mostly associated with changes in progressivity. For in-kind benefits, changes in the …