One of the fastest growing European catchwords at the present time - the 'European Social Model' (ESM) - is used to describe the European experience of simultaneously promoting sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. The use of the concept of ESM in academic and political debate is...

This short paper starts from two contributions written by economists in late 2007 and early 2008 which plead for :(i) improved public governance in French-speaking Balgium, and (H) « responsible solidarity » within Belgium, together with improved coordination of policies. The paper argues that...

Conventional models of earnings assume that the occupational pay structure reflects the distribution of marginal productivities. Although ubiquitious in the literature, the underlying hypothesis that wages equal marginal products rests on weak empirical footing: extant studies from the 1970s...