How do international organisations (IOs) influence domestic policymaking? In the field of educational policy, IOs increasingly play an important role in shaping national debates and policies. Comparative studies as conducted by the OECD, for example, reveal strengths and weaknesses of individual...

What role can better quality of public finances play in supporting Europe's long-term economic growth prospects? This question was at the centre of the 2008 European Commission workshop on public finances. It was largely motivated by the pressures put on European economies and their budgets from...

Occupational sex segregation persists in all European and OECD countries; yet in some countries, it is more pronounced than in others. In this paper we seek to explain these cross-national variations by analyzing the realistic occupational aspirations of 15-yearold pupils in 29 EU and OECD...

Ursprünglich sollte die Duty Free Regelung bereits mit der Errichtung des EU-Binnenmarktes zum 1. Junuar 1993 auslaufen. Um den betroffenen Unternehmen eine Anpassung an die geänderte steuerliche Situation zu gewähren, wurde eine Übergangsregelung mit Ablauf 30. Juni 1999 geschaffen. Gegen...