importance of demographic factors as asource of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution tototal income risk …

on being in employment. This paper surveys recent tax-benefit reforms in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, The UK, France … determining the incentives to take up work; (iii) joint assessment of income for both purposes of taxation and benefit eligibility …

Little is known on the effects of inheritances on the working behavior of heirs. Using panel data for Germany, we find … beneficiaries labor supply effects are, however, modest (owing to small amounts of inherited wealth). These results remain robust if … not adjust working hours and the full response takes place in the phase of the inheritance. Although negative income …

- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

in partner wealth for the younger two groups. Income and education can explain less than a third of the intergenerational … role of inequality in labor markets and wealth.In Chapter 1, I study whether the effects of unemployment insurance (UI …’ outside options. I exploit measurement error in state unemployment rates that led to quasi-random assignment of UI durations …

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is … shortages. The road to full employment is embedded in a landscape with less income inequality and more "greening" of EU member …