In The Decline of the Welfare State, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka use a political economy framework to analyze the effects of aging populations, migration, and globalization on the deteriorating system of financing welfare state benefits as we know them. Their timely analysis, supported by a...

Reviews and reflects on recent publications on the relationship between industrialization and child labour in the western world from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.

ILO pub. Article reviewing supreme court jurisprudence on reverse racial discrimination in relation to employment opportunity and educational opportunity affirmative action programmes in the USA - comments on historical decisions and on passage of related civil rights legislation and labour...

In recent decades, governments have built up substantial public debt, which is often accompanied by a growing public sector and fiscal policies that neglect long-term considerations. The contributors to this CESifo volume consider whether the development of public debt in the United States and...