We integrate social exclusion, operationalized in terms of long-term unemployment, into the theory of optimal … redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed …, in conjunction with optimal income taxation, contributes to redistribution and reduced long-term unemployment. The second …

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …

changes in labor taxes affect employment, unemployment, and inactivity rates in the European Union. The descriptive empirical …

to avoid elevated unemployment rates during the transition. …

sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …

sector, high youth unemployment, weak private sectors, rapidly growing but highly distorted educational attainment, and low …

compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the … irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …