This paper evaluates drivers of personal overindebtedness among the member-states of the European Union (EU). Personal overindebtedness gives rise to poverty, social exclusion, and other serious private and social problems. The EU, however, has neither adopted a common definition of...

The purpose of this research is to investigate how labor market institutions and regulations and tax policies effect income inequality across the European member countries. The sample contains the fifteen core European Union (EU) members as well as thirteen Central and Eastern European (CEE)...