01517cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001562 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451803167 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Belgium : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2001. 1 online resource (41 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper provides a number of complementary estimates of potential output and the output gap-variables that cannot be observed directly. After a substantial increase in the tax wedge in the 1970s and the 1980s, which has been widely thought to have been partly responsible for the sharp rise in unemployment rates, the Belgian authorities instituted a policy of reduction in employers' social security contributions. The reforms will reverse the increase in average income tax rates during the 1990s. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2001/045 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2001/045/002.2001.issue-045-en.xml IMF e-Library