Seit Anfang der neunziger Jahre setzt sich die Europäische Kommission für die Förderung von finanziellen Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen in den Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union ein. Die Resonanz auf die ausgesprochenen Empfehlungen und die Intensität, mit der sie umgesetzt wurden, waren in...

The extensive public sector measures in support of the financial sector have been key to managing the financial crisis that erupted in mid-2007 and intensified after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers. This article looks into the measures taken by central banks to contain the impact of the...

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using...