Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85579 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 99-086/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We analyze the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wagesusing an equilibrium search model which allows for dispersion ofbenefits and productivity levels, job-to-job transitions, andstructural and frictional unemployment. The estimation method usesreadily available aggregate data on marginal distributions ofunemployment durations as well as wages and benefit levels.Different causes of structural and frictional unemployment areinvestigated. We investigate the efficiency of the imposition of asingle benefit level for all household types and the introductionof an Earned Income Tax Credit.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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