Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen von Steuer-Transfer-Reformen in einem konsistent gekoppelten Mikro-Makro-Modell mit heterogenen Arbeitsmärkten. Das Modell umfasst drei Qualifikationstypen, die in der Produktion unvollständig substituierbar sind. Die empirisch geschätzten...

Incomplete monetary union and Europe's current crisis -- From order to disorder : how monetary union changed national labor markets -- Monetary regimes, sectoral wage relations and the current account crisis in the EMU south : empirical evidence -- National central banks promoting inflation...