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

leads to smaller output and employment declines compared to rate hikes, even when distinguishing between tax types …

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 …

unemployment, several European economies display highly persistent unemployment dynamics. The theory of hysteresis challenges this … strong empirical evidence of unemployment hysteresis in advanced economies since the 1990s. Relying on an identification … unemployment rates to pre-shock levels …

growth as well as employment protection legislation reduce the likelihood of an outward shift in the Beveridge curve,. Our … education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market … policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching signficantly more difficult …

This paper studies net employment growth across 21 OECD economies in 1980-97, focusing on experiences within the … shows that a policy package including low taxation and flexible employment protection legislation is associated with high …

The literature on the relationship between the unemployment rate and wage bargaining fails to separate the offsetting … effects of a reduction in competition associated with centralized bargaining and the increased awareness of unemployment … unemployment rate in countries that have switched to centralized wage-bargaining arrangements, the industry wage is not …