Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited to measures that hurt neither shareholders nor workers. This paper develops a policy proposal, which allows the government to reduce wage costs without changing the income...

Many countries suffer from persistently high unemployment rates. The scope for labour market reforms is often limited to measures that hurt neither shareholders nor workers. This paper develops a policy proposal, which allows the government to recuce wage costs without changing the income...

Vor dem Hintergrund des gescheiterten Leipziger Modells beleuchte Dr. Ronnie Schöb, Universität Magdeburg und CESifo, die ökonomischen Aspekte einer kommunalen Beschäftigungsförderung durch die Einrichtung kommunaler Beschäftigungsgesellschaften. Er untersucht die fiskalischen Anreize zur...

Soll die Zahl der Arbeitslosen in Deutschland verringert werden, müssen die Arbeitskosten deutlich gesenkt werden. Doch die historisch gewachsene Einkommensverteilung lässt sich nicht antasten, ohne den sozialen Konsens zwischen Beziehern von Arbeitseinkommen und Beziehern von Kapitaleinkommen...

Workfare proposals concentrate on the work incentives for welfare recipients, thus focusing on the labor supply side. This paper analyzes the effects workfare has on labor demand when the labor market is unionized. As workfare reduces the number of recipients of public financial assistance, a...

This survey reviews the recent literature on the double-dividend hypothesis of environmental taxes and discusses some recent extensions of the standard model such as the distributional consequences and the importance of the non-separability assumption between consumption goods and environmental...