Was hat der Euro mit griechischer Mythologie zu tun? Ganz einfach: Wie Odysseus dem Klang der Sirenen, so haben die EU-Mitgliedstaaten der Verführungskraft neuer Schulden zu widerstehen. Im Rahmen der aktuellen Politik werden sie jedoch immer wieder schwach. Der neue Chef des ifo Instituts,...

This paper investigates the economic consequences of workplace accidents in the British labour market. For the empirical analysis, I use data on employment and earnings from the British Household Panel Survey and exploit fixed effects estimators to control for time-invariant unobserved workers'...

When someone becomes involuntarily unemployed, they typically lose not only income and wealth but also psychological well-being as a result of the experience of being unemployed. This paper proposes that when a plaintiff proves that a defendant's illegal action caused the plaintiff to be...