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 …

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 …

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 …

We read search theory's unemployment equilibrium condition as an Iso-Unemployment Curve(IUC).The IUC is the locus of … job destruction rates and expected unemployment durations rendering the same unemployment level. A country's position … unemployment level at which such preferences are satisfied Using a panel of 20 OECD countries over 1985-2008, we find employment …

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 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 …

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