We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...

Die Staaten Osteuropas haben seit dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs ausgehend von einer institutionell recht homogenen Situation eine sehr heterogene Entwicklung genommen. Diese Heterogenität bezieht sich nicht nur auf einige zentrale makroökonomische Größen, sondern insb. auch auf die Ebene...

This paper provides a survey of the recent literature about firing costs and discusses the transmission channels of firing costs in a partial equilibrium context. In addition, we expand our analysis two types of firing costs in a New Keynesian model with purely endogenous separations. We further...

Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse indirect effects. A critical review of the empirical literature reveals that severance benefit...