Vor Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland gab es eine Reihe von Prognosen zu den möglichen Beschäftigungseffekten. Entgegen dem damals herrschenden Konsens haben die inzwischen vorliegenden empirischen Analysen nur begrenzte negative Beschäftigungseffekte identifiziert....

Seit dem 1. Januar 2015 gilt in Deutschland ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn. Damit dieser seine Wirksamkeit entfalten kann, ist es nötig, dass die Vorschriften des Mindestlohngesetzes eingehalten werden und der Mindestlohn gezahlt wird. Die erfolgreiche Implementierung von Mindestlöhnen baut auf...

In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market.

The current debate on the role of regional politics in the Euro pean Union (EU) is dominated by approaches that focus upon either intergovernmental bargaining or multi-level govern ance. Because Structural Funds are the main EU-wide redis tributive policy, we propose to apply the traditional...

Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of ‘net fiscal flows’ or ‘fiscal balances’ provided by the government or other actors. This unique...

We study the role of political institutions in the regional allocation of public infrastructure investments in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We estimate the regional variation in the allocation for each country, controlling for the potential endogeneity of its impact on growth and...

We investigate the distribution of European Union (EU) Structural Funds across EU regions. We draw from literature on the political economy of national intergovernmental grants and on the two-tiered bargaining process in the EU. Bargaining on the distribution of Structural Funds takes place on...