alternative that leads to positive labour supply and significantly positive welfare effects. Both labour supply and static welfare … reforms to invade the grown-up welfare states of "Old Europe". …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the unionised sectors. In the opposite case, the welfare effect of … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the unionised sectors. In the opposite case, the welfare effect of … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …

alternative that leads to positive labour supply and significantly positive welfare effects. Both labour supply and static welfare … reforms to invade the grown-up welfare states of "Old Europe". …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …