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

Richard Disney

No 2000/164, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

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: WP; earnings test; direct tax; tax burden; income tax; labor market; Taxes; welfare spending; tax structure; microeconometrics; replacement rate; low income; test abolition; net replacement; pretax earnings distribution; labor force; labor supply; Wages; Labor supply; Marginal effective tax rate; Income; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2000-10-01
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