This working paper looks at recent structural reforms of the Spanish labour market and evaluates them against the government's stated objectives to reduce unemployment.It concludes that the labour market flexibilisation approach has not helped to reduce unemployment, nor has it contributed to...

This working paper reviews the findings of the most prominent studies on the economic impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), focussing on those commissioned by the European Commission and by the German government. It casts doubt on the methods used and concludes...

This Working Paper critically analyses Italy's labour market reforms of 2012 (Fornero Reform). It focuses especially on a measure to cut unemployment and labour-market dualism by reducing the protection against dismissal enjoyed by permanent employees.The main argument of this paper is that...