employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

detrimental medium-term effects on output, unemployment, poverty, and inequality. However, policies can go a long way toward … relatively greater fiscal support. The increases in unemployment, poverty, and inequality are likewise lower for countries with …

This paper reviews conceptual linkages between taxation and unemployment, available empirical evidence and country … policy advice on these issues, and tax policy options in addressing the unemployment problem. It concludes that the emphasis … unemployment …

large an effect on employment as untargeted reductions for equal initial budgetary cost, while employee social security tax … reductions have a negative effect on employment. They also point to the presence of “self-financing,” whereby reductions in … various tax rates lead to lower budget deficits in the long run, as a result of an expanding tax base and lower unemployment …

unemployment and debt. The paper illustrates in a downside scenario, how low potential growth and crisis legacies leave the euro …

implementation of employment protection legislation could also help reduce unemployment. Efforts to tackle crime could help reduce …Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less … which produced the extreme levels of unemployment, but more could have been done to unwind those legacies and other policies …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to …