DSpace Repository

The Impact of Tax, Product and Labour Market Distortions on the Phillips Curve and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

Show simple item record

dc.creator Bokan, Nikola
dc.creator Hughes Hallett, Andrew
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:57:04Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:57:04Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17852
dc.identifier ppn:534873057
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17852
dc.description Most people accept that structural and labour market reforms are needed in Europe. However few have been undertaken. The usual conjecture is that reforms are costly in economic performance and costly to finance. Blanchard and Giavazzi (2003) and Spector (2004) develop a general equilibrium model with imperfect competition to show the impact of labour or product market deregulation. We extend that model to combine both reforms, and include the costs of financing them, the conflict between long run gains and short run costs, and to allow for reforms of distortionary taxation. We also extend the model to explain the natural rate of unemployment and non-wage employment costs, to show the impact of reform on the short and long run Phillips curve parameters. We find that structural reforms imply short run costs but long run gains (unemployment rises and then falls, while wages move in the opposite way); that the long run gains outweigh the short run costs; and that the financing of such reforms is the main stumbling block. We also find that the implications for welfare improvements and employment generation are quite different: tax reforms are more effective for welfare, but market liberalisation for employment.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1336
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject E24
dc.subject J58
dc.subject H23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Structural reform
dc.subject wage bargains
dc.subject short vs . long run substitutability
dc.subject endogenous entry of firms
dc.subject Phillips-Kurve
dc.subject Natürliche Arbeitslosigkeit
dc.subject Deregulierung
dc.subject Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung
dc.subject Steuerwirkung
dc.subject Allgemeines Gleichgewicht
dc.subject Unvollkommener Wettbewerb
dc.subject Beschäftigungseffekt
dc.subject Wohlfahrtseffekt
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title The Impact of Tax, Product and Labour Market Distortions on the Phillips Curve and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

Search DSpace


Advanced Search

Browse

My Account