The paper empirically examines three possible reasons for the high and rising unemployment of low-skilled employees in Germany: (i) an upsurge in interindustry trade, (ii) a skill-biased technical change, and (iii) a failure of labour market adjustment. The empirical analyses indicate that an...

In den letzten Monaten ist die Frage der künftigen Ausgestaltung der Umsatzbesteuerung im Binnenmarkt erneut in den Blickpunkt der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion geraten. Das ursprünglich bis zum Ende des Jahres 1996 terminierte Übergangssystem der Umsatzbesteuerung im europäischen...

The paper discusses various possible approaches to turnover taxation in cyberspace. It shows that the main challenge of the new economy is to effectively cope with B2C international trade in digital online goods and services. However, most approaches to turnover taxation discussed in the...

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...