Das Papier gibt einen Überblick über die Besteuerung von grenzüberschreitend erzielten Erwerbseinkünften. Den bestehenden uni- und bilateralen Lösungsansätzen werden die Empfehlung der EU-Kommission und die multilaterale Lösung der Nordischen Staaten gegenübergestellt. Sowohl der...

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build...

Cross-border commuters from EU 15 countries have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters, for cross-border commuters from the new 12 EU member countries the opposite applies. Within-country commuters have lower over- but higher under-education rates than non-commuters in...

I describe the extent and structure of cross-border commuting in the EU 27 to show that this is important only in a small number of border regions with strong linguistic, historic or institutional ties. Cross-border commuters are mostly medium skilled, male manufacturing workers, who have higher...