High labor tax wedges and slow formal employment growth have combined to make labor tax reform an important economic policy issue in Turkey. This synthesis report presents the results of a series of empirical studies of the impact of a labor tax reform. The analysis was undertaken before the...

Turkey’s social policy response to the Covid-19 pandemic combined various conventional and unconventional social policy tools. In a context of already persistently high unemployment rates, the government put an emphasis on labor market reforms to protect employment, with a short-time work...

Die zukünftige finanzielle Absicherung der Rentnerinnen und Rentner in Deutschland wird zunehmend schwieriger. Dazu tragen vor allem die demografische Entwicklung, die Folgen von Arbeitslosigkeit und die zunehmende Bedeutung von Nichtnormalarbeitsverhältnissen bei. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird...