various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …

exogenous variation in schooling by using biomarkers as measures of health outcomes in addition to self-reported measures. We …Using data from the Health Survey for England and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing, we estimate the causal … effect of schooling on health. Identification comes from two nation wide increases in British compulsory school leaving age …

on Latin America, and addresses the question of whether Latin America has now succeeded in breaking with its history of …

The paper discusses the flexicurity model, its key policy elements, and association with a low unemployment rate and a … high standard of social security for the unemployed. It provides details of an empirical analysis of unemployment …

the social transfer system in Belgium. Belgium has a very accessible and equitable health care system. The system is …

The review outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon. It …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes labor market policies and unemployment dynamics in Spain. It provides a brief …