"The outcome-based approach assesses the privatization of the provision of a good or a service by reference to the quality or quantity of its provision. Private provision is desirable when private entities make better - more efficient, just, etc.- decisions with respect to the relevant...

Introduction / Ganesh Sitaraman & Anne Alstott -- More than meets the eye : government social provision and the politics of "public options" / Mallory SoRelle & Suzanne Mettler -- The entrpreneurial state : socializing risks and rewards / Mariana Mazzucato & Henry Lishi Li -- Challenges in...

Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...