The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policieson Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries

October 1, 2000

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Summary

The paper provides a selective survey of methods and findings concerning the impact of tax and welfare policies on employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy and concludes that cross-country macroeconomic studies shed only limited light on the issue. Analyses of household behavior using microeconometric methods are much more fruitful but the question remains of how to aggregate these results to assess the overall impact of policy.

Subject: Income, Labor, Labor supply, Labor taxes, Marginal effective tax rate, National accounts, Tax policy, Wages

Keywords: direct tax, earnings test, Europe, Income, income tax, labor force, labor market, labor supply, Labor supply, low income, Marginal effective tax rate, microeconometrics, net replacement, pretax earnings distribution, replacement rate, tax burden, tax structure, Taxes, test abolition, Wages, welfare spending, WP

Pages:
42
Volume:
2000
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451857986.001
Issue:
164
Series:
Working Paper No. 2000/164
Stock No:
WPIEA1642000
ISBN:
9781451857986
ISSN:
1018-5941

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