This paper discusses tax and expenditure policy reforms to raise employment. Using data for 58 advanced and emerging …. The focus is on incentives to increase labor demand and supply rather than on the impact of fiscal policy on employment … principles which should guide the design of country-specific fiscal reforms to boost employment. A comprehensive set of tables on …

This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key … and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment … its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in …

distribution of wage and earnings growth has not been uniform across deciles. A breakdown in employment growth by wage deciles also …. Microeconometric estimations provide evidence of an outward shift in the relationship between wages and unemployment that is … independent of changes in labor demand taxes and unemployment income …

developing countries been responsible for thelowered wages of the unskilled, increased unemployment, and widenedincome inequality …