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Is the impact of labour taxes on unemployment asymmetric?

Gerdie Everaert (UGent) and Tino Berger (UGent)
(2008) Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde. 2008/523. p.1-9
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This paper tests whether the impact of labour taxes on unemployment is symmetric with respect to increases and decreases in labour taxes. Using a panel of 16 OECD countries over the period 1970-2005, we estimate a panel unobserved component model to account for the fact that unemployment rates and labour taxes are non-stationary but not cointegrated. We find a positive impact of tax increases in European and Nordic countries with some evidence that tax decreases have a more moderate impact. For Anglo-Saxon countries, no impact of labour taxes on unemployment is found.
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labour taxes, unobserved component model, asymmetry, unemployment

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MLA
Everaert, Gerdie, and Tino Berger. “Is the Impact of Labour Taxes on Unemployment Asymmetric?” Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie En Bedrijfskunde, vol. 2008/523, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent, 2008, pp. 1–9.
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Everaert, G., & Berger, T. (2008). Is the impact of labour taxes on unemployment asymmetric? Ghent: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent.
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Everaert, Gerdie, and Tino Berger. 2008. “Is the Impact of Labour Taxes on Unemployment Asymmetric?” Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie En Bedrijfskunde. Ghent: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent.
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Everaert, Gerdie, and Tino Berger. 2008. “Is the Impact of Labour Taxes on Unemployment Asymmetric?” Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie En Bedrijfskunde. Ghent: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent.
Vancouver
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Everaert G, Berger T. Is the impact of labour taxes on unemployment asymmetric? Vol. 2008/523, Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde. Ghent: Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent; 2008. p. 1–9.
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G. Everaert and T. Berger, “Is the impact of labour taxes on unemployment asymmetric?,” Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, vol. 2008/523. Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent, Ghent, pp. 1–9, 2008.
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respect to increases and decreases in labour taxes. Using a panel of 16 OECD countries over
the period 1970-2005, we estimate a panel unobserved component model to account for the
fact that unemployment rates and labour taxes are non-stationary but not cointegrated. We find a positive impact of tax increases in European and Nordic countries with some evidence that tax decreases have a more moderate impact. For Anglo-Saxon countries, no impact of labour taxes on unemployment is found.}},
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  keywords     = {{labour taxes,unobserved component model,asymmetry,unemployment}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--9}},
  publisher    = {{Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, UGent}},
  series       = {{Working Paper Series Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde}},
  title        = {{Is the impact of labour taxes on unemployment asymmetric?}},
  volume       = {{2008/523}},
  year         = {{2008}},
}