Labour Market Policies: What Works for Newly Arrived Immigrants? -- Education Efforts for Immigrants -- Social Insurance Design and the Economic Integration of Immigrants -- Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants -- Education Policy for Adolescent Immigrants -- How Should the...

The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...