Kögel, Tomas - School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University - 2005
18 September 2005 to reduce the unemployment insurance contributions by 2 percent and to finance this with an increase in … tax reform does not reduce unemployment; neither in the short to medium run, nor in the long run. When there is short …-to-medium-run real wage resistance, then in the short to medium run unemployment depends on the overall tax burden, but not on the …