In evaluating environmental policy, researchers have tended to focus on the industry or market that is targeted by regulation and to disregard policy impacts in other parts of the economy. Recent research indicates, however, that in economies where governments rely on distortionary taxes,...

The economic demands of an ageing population, coupled with the crisis of public spending pose one of the greatest challenges to social policy in both the East and West. This book focuses on the political economy of pensions, particularly on the interaction between private and state provision....

Contents: Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction to a research agenda for workplace stress and wellbeing / E. Kevin Kelloway and Cary L. Cooper -- 2. Workplace stress and wellbeing: Pathways for future research advances / James Campbell Quick -- 3. The cost of stress to uk employers and...

"Presenting innovative modelling approaches to the analysis of fiscal policy and government debt, this book moves beyond previous models that have relied upon the assumption that various age-specific rates and policy variables remain unchanged when it comes to generating government expenditures...