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Redistribution and employment policies with endogenous unemployment

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  • Boadway, Robin
  • Cuff, Katherine
  • Marceau, Nicolas

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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 involuntary unemployment, frictional and that induced by efficiency wages. We consider how the quality of the government's information affects policies and also study time-consistent policies. The models are simple, yet rich enough to reflect real-world policies, including transfers to the disabled, welfare for non-working employables, unemployment insurance, employment subsidies, and taxes on workers and firms. Nous étudions les transferts aux sans-emploi, lesquels peuvent être incapables de travailler, chômeurs volontaires ou chômeurs involontaires. Le nombre de chômeurs volontaires et involontaires est endogène. Nous caractérisons les politiques gouvernementales optimales pour le cas où le chômage involontaire est frictionnel et pour celui où il est causé par des salaires efficaces. Nous étudions la cohérence temporelle des politiques et l'impact qu'a sur elles la qualité de l'information à la disposition du gouvernement. Comportant des transferts aux non-employables, de l'aide sociale aux sans-emplois capables de travailler, de l'assurance-chômage, des subventions à l'emploi et des taxes payées par les firmes et les travailleurs, les modèles étudiés sont simples mais demeurent néanmoins de bonnes représentations de la réalité.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of Public Economics.

Volume (Year): 87 (2003)
Issue (Month): 11 (October)
Pages: 2407-2430

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  1. Robin Boadway & Katherine Cuff, 1999. "Monitoring Job Search as an Instrument for Targeting Transfers," Cahiers de recherche CREFE / CREFE Working Papers 71, CREFE, Université du Québec à Montréal.
  2. Boadway, Robin & Cuff, Katherine & Marceau, Nicolas, 2003. "Redistribution and employment policies with endogenous unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(11), pages 2407-2430, October.
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  1. Robin Boadway & Katherine Cuff & Nicolas Marceau, 2004. "Agglomeration Effects and the Competition for Firms," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 11(5), pages 623-645, 09.
  2. Robin Boadway & Katherine Cuff & Nicolas Marceau, 2002. "Advance Production Duopolies and Posted Prices or Market-Clearing Prices," Department of Economics Working Papers 2002-08, McMaster University.
  3. Basu, Arnab K. & Chau, Nancy H. & Kanbur, Ravi, 2009. "A theory of employment guarantees: Contestability, credibility and distributional concerns," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 93(3-4), pages 482-497, April.
  4. Laurence Jacquet & Etienne Lehmann & Bruno Van der Linden, 2012. "Optimal Redistributive Taxation with both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses," CESifo Working Paper Series 3779, CESifo Group Munich.
  5. Boadway, Robin & Cuff, Katherine & Marceau, Nicolas, 2003. "Redistribution and employment policies with endogenous unemployment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(11), pages 2407-2430, October.
  6. Etienne LEHMANN & Alexis PARMENTIER & Bruno VAN DER LINDEN, 2009. "Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment," Working Papers 2009-01, Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique.
  7. Tetsuya Nakajima, 2010. "A Simple Model Of Keynesian Unemployment," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 61(2), pages 239-256, 05.
  8. Protopopescu Dan, 2008. "Improving the Effort Concept: A Revision of the Traditional Approach in the Context of Controlled Dynamic Stochastic Environments," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 739.08, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC), revised 03 Dec 2009.

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