Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what factors may account for this surprising performance. The...

The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the withinhousehold distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a collective model of labor supply when shifting from a joint to an individual taxation system in France....

Das ifo Institut untersuchte im Auftrag der Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE) die Besteuerung bestimmter Produktionsmittel in ausgewählten EU-Mitgliedstaaten. Neben einem steuerrechtlichen Teil, in dem die unterschiedlichen Regelungen in den einzelnen Ländern dargelegt...