Social harmonization and labor market performance in Europe

The paper aims to assess the impact of selected elements of social harmonization on labor market performance in the European Union among two groups of workers – the total working population and the elderly. The aim is to examine whether upward changes in labor taxes affect employment, unemployment, and inactivity rates in the European Union. The descriptive empirical evidence shows that the level of labor taxation varies significantly across European countries and the introduced changes might affect national markets differently. The Arellano-Bo

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