We characterize the Laffer curves for labor taxation and capital income taxation quantitatively for the US, the EU-14 … benchmark parameters, we find that the US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and 6% by raising capital … income taxes. For the EU-14 we obtain 8% and 1%. Denmark and Sweden are on the wrong side of the Laffer curve for capital …

impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures … is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the …