Does schooling generate social returns in excess of the private returns captured by the individual who makes the human capital investment? As a strategy to detect human capital externalities I use Dutch survey data to estimate the impact of the average human capital stock in a region on...

Following the event in Strasbourg, the EESC has launched the Social Enterprise Project to identify policy ideas and specific measures that can be taken. Throughout the project, the EESC has gathered valuable input from people working in field across Europe, and met with stakeholders at local,...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential for governance improvements in the internal market with a view to removing bureaucratic hurdles for business. Its conclusion is that the European Commission, although active in cutting red tape in EU legislation, is not intervening yet...

On 6 June an audience of 450 drawn from small firms organisations, banks, trade associations and other communication multipliers attended “Enterprises 2002” to reflect on the practical impact for enterprises of the end of the transition period on 31 December 2001. This conference had been...