policies, but at the same time poverty and inequality have remained high or have increased. Prospects are not encouraging for …

on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

This paper uses a composite measure to examine why some countries attract more foreign direct investment (FDI) than … others. The measure considers all identified, measurable, and comparable socioeconomic aspects that affect FDI decisions on … an aggregated country level. As a result, we can rank 127 countries with respect to their FDI attraction. The measure …

Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which … comparison with OECD countries, but it is not strongly enforced. Poverty among pensioners is set to fall in the future with the …