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Europe faces high levels of persistent unemployment. Many countries are reforming their tax and benefit systems and trimming back the size of the public sector in order to fight unemployment. This chapter tries to shed some light on these issues.
This paper was presented at plenary session IV on ‘Changing Public Sector Attitudes to the Unemployment Problem’ of the 51st Congress of the International institute of Public Finance on ‘The Changing Role of the Public Sector: Transitions in the 1990s’, Lisbon, Portugal, 21–24 August 1995. Comments from Peter Sørensen and two anonymous referees are gratefully acknowledged.
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van der Ploeg, F. (1998). Unemployment and Public Finance in Europe. In: Sørensen, P.B. (eds) Public Finance in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14336-8_6
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