Die bevorstehende Osterweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) stellt für die beitretenden Staaten einen bedeutenden Schritt ihrer Wiedereingliederung in das ökonomische Netzwerk Europas dar. Ein wesentliches Kriterium bei der Beurteilung des Erfolgs der Osterweiterung ist die Auswirkung des...

Anliegen der Untersuchung ist es, die beträchtliche Disparität aufzuzeigen, die die Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland aufweist. Wohl hatten 1993 fast 97 vH aller westdeutschen Haushalte Geldvermögen; für ein Zehntel von ihnen betrug es aber höchstens 4000 DM, für die Hälfte der...

This book consists of a selected subset of papers presented at the International Symposium of Linked Employer-Employee Data, held in Washington DC, in May 1998 - to address the creation and analysis of such matched data in an environment that safeguards respondent confidentiality. The conference...

Europe's notoriously high level of unemployment is one of the big puzzles of empirical macroeconomics. In recent years, the unemployment rate has fallen in The Netherlands, but the overall level in OECD Europe remains high. An investigation into why Dutch economic policy has been relatively...

"Prioritarianism is a framework for ethical assessment that gives extra weight to the worse off. Unlike utilitarianism, which simply adds up well-being numbers, prioritarianism is sensitive to the distribution of well-being across the population of ethical concern. Prioritarianism in Practice...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. What we have learned from the interviews -- Chapter 2. The goal, context, and methods behind our case studies -- Chapter 3. What do our case studies tell us? -- Part 2. New questions the interviews have raised -- Chapter 4. The decision to implement UBI...

This book brings together insights and reflections following a set of interviews conducted with the main stakeholders involved in past, current, and future basic income experiments. It provides an analysis of some of the major elements and factors influencing experiments, as well of some of...

Biographical note: Giuseppe Bertola is Professor of Economics at the University of Turin. Reto Foellmi is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich. Josef Zweimüller is Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich.