unemployment. What is required instead is deeper labor market reforms across a broader range of complementary policies and …This paper argues that an important group of labor market policies are complementary in the sense that the effect of … diverse, piecemeal labor market reforms in many European countries in recent years have had so little success in reducing …

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 …

The Greek unemployment rate rose from 2 percent in the 1960s to 9-10 percent in the 1990s. This reflected the increase …

with more rigid labor market institutions. These effects are even larger for youth unemployment in the short term and long …-term unemployment in the medium term. Conversely, large upfront, or gradual but significant, comprehensive labor market policies have a … impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with …

business cycle will induce a higher natural rate of unemployment …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits into employment subsidies--“benefit transfers” for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an incentive to …

unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …

This paper documents recent labor market performance in the Latin American region. The paper shows that unemployment … conclusions on the impact of labor market institutions and demographic factors on unemployment, informality, inequality and … remained stubbornly low. The paper, then, turns to the potential impacts of various labor market institutions, including …

recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped … the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create jobs. But the impact of these labor reforms on income inequality … decomposition procedure combined with the synthetic control method. The results indicate that the 2012 labor reforms have helped …