BERGER, T.; EVERAERT, G. - Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent - 2008
This paper tests whether the impact of labour taxes on unemployment is symmetric with respect to increases and decreases in labour taxes. Using a panel of 16 OECD countries over the period 1970-2005, we estimate a panel unobserved component model to account for the fact that unemployment rates...