Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years...

This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...

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,...