Since the mid-1990s almost all OECD countries have engaged in fundamental reforms of
their tax systems. There is a trend towards higher social security contributions and lower tax …

This article examines the problem of unemployment and the effectiveness of fiscal
instruments for regulating employment. Authors have analyzed 131 countries of the world …

The purpose of this paper is to develop an imperfect competition model of a small open
developing country to analyze the effects of trade sanctions on the incidence of child labor …

This chapter has set out in detail the models which are employed below in order to analyse
the labour market effects of changes in tax rates and in alterations in the tax structure. The …

Given the empirical fact that workers of different ages are not perfect substitutes in
production, this paper explores how change in the age pattern affects wages and (un) …

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of commodity tax competition on welfare and
employment under the destination and origin principles, when the labor market is imperfectly …

Economic theory and empirical research confirm that the rising international integration
caused an increase in aggregate income at least for the industrialized countries, although …

This paper explores how revenue-neutral tax reforms impact employment and economic
growth in a model of endogenous growth and search frictions on the labor market. We …

Die Hartz-Gesetze I-IV zielen insbesondere auf die Verkürzung der Dauer der
Arbeitslosigkeit durch vermehrte Abgänge aus Arbeitslosigkeit ab. Bereits wenige Monate …

The overwhelming majority of the trade literature concludes that trade liberalization is no
Pareto improvement. Despite the gains of trade on the macroeconomic level, there are …