The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policies on Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries

Disney, Richard F.

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The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policies on Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries

IMF Working Paper No. 00/164

43 Pages Posted: 2 Feb 2006

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Richard F. Disney

University of Nottingham; Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Axia Economics

Date Written: October 2000

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Taxes welfare spending tax structure microeconometrics

JEL Classification: H2 H3 J3

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Disney, Richard F., The Impact of Tax and Welfare Policies on Employment and Unemployment in OECD Countries (October 2000). IMF Working Paper No. 00/164, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=880185