Topics: - Fiscal competition, - Tax burden comparisons and location decisions, - Fiscal federalism, - Public debt, - Tax policies: tax systems for globalised economies, - Impact of fiscal policy on growth.

Well functioning labor markets are crucial to the adjustment process required of economies as they are battered with shocks from globalization, technology, etc. Which economic policies and institutions play a positive role in assisting the responsiveness of the labor market to these shocks while...

The objective of the Summer School is to bring together a large number of PhD students and senior lecturers to study new areas in labor economics. Students have the opportunity to present their work and discuss ideas with established researchers in a relaxed and open atmosphere. The School is...

The goal of this workshop is to discuss international experiences with social policies and reforms, and to exchange ideas about methodological advances in program evaluation. We are particularly interested in papers undertaking evaluation of non-standard social policies and/or using non-standard...

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the participation of women in the labor market in a number of European countries. As a result there have been a growing number of papers examining these changes within countries. However, there have been many fewer papers examining the...