The six studies collected in this CESifo volume analyse the sometimes unpredictable effects of public regulation on the labour market. Examining a wide range of policy interventionsfrom subsidised employment to an increased tax on capital and using a variety of methodologies to analyse them,...

We propose a novel framework to analyse the macroeconomic impact of noncommunicable diseases. We incorporate measures of disease prevalence into a human capital augmented production function, which enables us to determine the economic costs of chronic health conditions in terms of foregone gross...