Basierend auf einem Projekt im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung, Bonn 2012 (78 Seiten)

Kurzexpertise im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Arbeit und Soziales, Bonn 2011 (28 Seiten)

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact onnational labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum...

Report based on a study conducted for the European Parliament, Bonn 2010 (188 pages)

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively...

This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneouslevels of ‘tax morale’. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale impliesa high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that ‘nice guys finish last’: groupswith...

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations...

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark...