This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...

Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On the other hand they influence the capacities of labor...

Der Übergang zur modernen Dienstleistungsgesellschaft fällt in allen hochindustrialisierten Ländern schwer. In der Bundesrepublik gilt es zudem, wirtschaftliche Probleme infolge der Wiedervereinigung zu lösen und die Arbeitslosigkeit zu vermindern. Dafür liegen zwar unterschiedliche...