Unemployment and Public Finance in Europe

Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Chapter 5 in Public Finance in a Changing World, 1998, pp 126-148 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Europe faces high levels of persistent unemployment. Many countries are reforming their tax and benefit systems and trimming back the size of the public sector in order to fight unemployment. This chapter tries to shed some light on these issues.

Keywords: Unemployment Benefit; Informal Economy; Fiscal Consolidation; Active Labour Market Policy; Wage Elasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-14336-8_6

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