"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

The European Union is faced with the most extensive enlargement in its history. Economic integration has made rapid progress over the past decade. After establishing its single market in 1993, the EU achieved the highest feasible level of economic integration by introducing its single currency...

Weithin unbemerkt bedient sich eine Reihe europäischer Länder zur Sicherung des Wirtschaftstandorts auch der Einkommenspolitik. Dies widerspricht dem weltwirtschaftlichen Paradigma und erscheint im Lichte der Erfahrungen sowohl des ersten Jahrzehnts nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg als auch der...