This publication presents results of the first skill supply forecast in Europe until 2020 and complements the forecast of skills demand published by Cedefop in 2008. It builds upon a multisectoral macroeconomic model, extended to include a set of overall labour supply projections by age and...

The study identifies trends and developments in some important Member States concerning national frameworks and their role in education/training and labour market developments. By doing so, this study will feed the debate of whether and how far an update of the European five-level structure is...

The purpose of this paper is to present an exercise where we identify optimal income tax rules under the constraint of fixed tax revenue. To this end, we estimate a microeconomic model with 78 parameters that capture heterogeneity in consumption-leisure preferences for singles and couples as...