We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …

and employment across the European Union. While the „multiple Speeds of Europe“ are a buzzword often quoted to underpin …, showing the evolution of disparities in terms of regional GVA, labour productivity and employment, both on the between country …, across the core Member States, we observe a dramatic increase in employment disparities that have been pushing inequality …

married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a …