employment, and on the impact of taxes in this connection. First, a heoretical model is built for an open economy leading to the … is that there is in the EU a fairly uniform and significant short-run negative impulse on employment from a positive … the tax wedge on labour in the EU-15 is a fairly sizeable and significant negative impact on employment both in the short …

turbulent years of the 1990s. These calculations reveal that not even a higher education protects from unemployment and thus … from the risk of marginalisation. Another important outcome is that although the unemployment rate declined among the …