"Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

"Analysing the British Labour Force Survey, we highlight that dependent self-employed workers constitute a group distinct from both employees and independent self-employed workers in the labour market group. Dependent self-employed workers show characteristics of a more volatile labour market...

Trotz der Mitgliedschaft in der EU und bestimmter Verordnungen der Europäischen Kommission, die für die Mitgliedstaaten verbindlich sind, herrscht weiterhin ein uneinheitliches Bild im Bereich der europäischen Sozialpolitik. Anhand eines Vergleichs der Arbeitnehmerrechte in Deutschland und im...

Is cliometrics a discipline that could help economists to close the gap between theory and empirical analysis? For many authors, and certainly many of its protagonists, cliometrics appears to be first of all a new branch of history, using economic theories, tools and techniques to provide...

The paper reacts to a widespread perception of the development of the European Community after the adoption and implementation of the internal market programme. These perceptions are characterised as endorsing the emergence of a "market without the state". This vision, the paper argues, is...

This paper critically examines some underlying assumptions of the “popular” economics writing of recent years, e.g. the Freakonomics literature. I examine two problems that emerge from these writings. First, popular economics is myopic in that it views incentives as the fundamental economic...

The impact of the economic crisis, which has rapidly developed and spread into a global economic shock, has become increasingly severe. The period immediately before the crisis was characterized by a combination of the following factors (hereinafter “origins of the crisis”): Blind belief in...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> Economic law and private international law also known as conflict of law, have complex relationships, especially in this globalization context. As a legal expression of the State regulatory power aiming at defining and regulating economic relationships and behaviors in the market, economic law...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> The interfaces between economic law and mandatory rules or ?lois de police?, are obvious since economic law rules are related to the public order, and are of mandatory character in nature. The trend we have witnessed toward the internationalization of the economic law is a direct consequence of...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> Substantive rules of international trade have emerged and developed especially in connection with international business transactions. Directly applicable to international business transactions, those norms have, over time, to a certain extent, supplemented the ?traditional? conflict rule of...