This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal … supply to the informal sector. -- Enforcement ; labor regulations ; inequality ; unemployment ; informal sector …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The … robustness of these properties is also discussed. -- Optimal income taxation ; unemployment ; matching …

The Japanese labor market displays U-shaped unemployment and separation rates, and declining job-finding rates as … the unemployment and finding rates similar in magnitude to those observed in Japan since the 1980s. …