This paper tries to analyze whether pursuing economic growth and setting up labor market policies affect inequality. Therefore a simple testable model along the lines of the Kuznets and Neoclassical literature is fit to the data. The explanatory power of the regressions is high. On average the...

The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of the measured growth rate and business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent.

The paper attempts to assess the major sources behind the exceptional Irish growth performance in the 1990s. Contrary to other Tigers, Ireland's growth is due to efficiency gains, rather than capital deepening, but the causes for the swift growth in total factor productivity cannot be pinned...

In this paper we investigate whether the European unification has had an impact on the Union's average labor productivity growth. Based on a time series approach we do not find a scale-effect as suggested by new growth theory. However, the data do not reject the hypothesis that the EU growth...

The recent changes in the national accounts unequivocally imply that the nature of measured growth and the business cycle has changed. This note investigates to what extent. Copyright 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

This paper provides an assessment of the determinants of income inequality in a broader macroeconomic context. In particular the hypothesis that income inequality is related to fundamentals affecting economic growth is examined.