In the period under consideration, as a result of restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from those countries that had introduced sanctions against the Russian Federation or those that have joined the anti-Russian economic policy, the domestic market was being artifi cially limited. This...

A widespread controversy raised in the period under review regarding measures of tackling the eff ects of economic sanctions on Russia. In our opinion, decision-making should be based on a comprehensive analysis of potential eff ects of measures proposed by the Russian Government and/or experts....

This paper studies the role of public policy to promote efficiency in human capital accumulation in the representative agent framework. Agents accumulate human capital by spending time in home study and in publicly provided schools. The individual faces an aggregate externality in the...

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) an employment bonus in the form of subsidized social security contributions on low wages. The work-incentive, labor-supply, and welfare effects of these policy...

In comparing the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment, the paper derives four main results: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion, the unemployment rate and the excess burden of labor...

In den vergangenen Jahren ist das Aufkommen aus der Unternehmensbesteuerung in Deutschland häufig weniger stark zurückgegangen, als es aufgrund reduzierter tariflicher Steuersätze zu erwarten gewesen wäre. Grund hierfür sind sogenannte Selbstfinanzierungseffekte. Diese ergeben sich aus...

Outsourcing of labor intensive activities challenges the welfare state and undermines the protection of low-skilled workers. The stylized facts are that profits are concentrated among the high-skilled, involuntary unemployment is mostly among the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance...

The paper compares the impact of corporate taxation and social insurance on foreign direct investment (FDI) and unemployment. Four main results are derived: (i) the optimal size of the welfare state depends on the degree of risk-aversion and the unemployment rate as a measure of labor income...

We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effective corporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany....