Avviso Seminario Dr. Christophe Planas - DISS Udine

["Tommaso Proietti" <proietti@dss.uniud.it>]

  	UNIVERSITA' DEGLI  STUDI  DI UDINE
  	DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE STATISTICHE
     	   Via Treppo 18, 33100 - Udine

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                   Seminario

    How much has labour taxation contributed
     to European structural unemployment?

            Dr. Christophe Planas

 The European Commission, DG - Joint Research Centre

             Venerd́ 16 gennaio
                 ore 12:00
              Sala Conferenze

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                 ABSTRACT
This paper analyses the effect of labour taxes on Euro
area unemployment. Empirical estimates obtained so far can
be criticised as being spurious because the regressions
generally lack non-measurable variables constituting the
reservation wage that can possibly be non stationary. Here
we overcome this problem by using an unobserved component model.
For the Euro area unemployment, we find a significant tax effect
that is in the middle of the estimates that can be found
in the empirical literature. This study gives support
to the view that lowering labour taxes can help to reduce
unemployment in continental Europe.

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Informazioni: Tommaso Proietti,
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