A model is built in which regions with redistributive goals compete to attract mobile firms that provide jobs to their work forces. Regions are inhabited with an immobile population of disabled and able individuals. The aim of each regional government is to provide support for the disabled, who...

Our paper analyzes the determinants of unemployment rates in Canada. The theoritical framework incorporates "demande-side" as well as "supply-side" variables: the interest rate, federal spending, taxation, foreign activity, minimum wages, union density, demographic pressure, unemployment...

We study the features of optimal transfers to the non-employed which include those unable to work, the voluntarily unemployed, and the involuntarily unemployed. Both voluntary and involuntary unemployment are endogenous. We analyze optimal government policies in the presence of two types of...