Download or read book Taxation, Welfare, and the Crisis of Unemployment in Europe written by Marco Buti and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume analyse the role of European tax and benefit systems in incentives to create and take up jobs. The first section provides an overview of the issues relating to the trade-off between equity and efficiency. The second section describes the burden of taxation and the generosity of the welfare system in Europe. Part three examines how to evaluate the effects of tax and welfare reforms and the final section looks at ways that tax can be used to deal with some structural problems. The papers show that European policy makers face tough choices and that reforms are costly, with complex trade-offs.