EU cohesion policy supports investment in infrastructure, R&D and human capital in Europe’s poorer regions. This chapter summarises model-based assessments of the potential macro-economic impact of these fiscal transfers using a micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium model with...

This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...