A Fiscal Job? : An Analysis of Fiscal Policy and the Labor Market /

This paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on employment through the lenses of Okun's Law. Looking at the panel of OECD countries over the past three decades, we find that fiscal policy can affect employment beyond the impact it is traditionally assumed to exert through the output multipli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bova, Elva
Other Authors: Kolerus, Christina, Tapsoba, Sampawende
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/216
Online Access:Full text available on IMF