How much has labour taxation contributed to European structural unemployment?

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1359-1375

  Planas, Christophe ^a   Roeger, Werner ^b   Rossi, Alessandro ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diffuse Kalman filter; NAIRU; Unemployment tax elasticity; Unobserved components

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847216194     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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