Kiel Policy Brief No. 76: The authors show that a strong welfare state does not necessarily weaken countries' international competitiveness in...

Globalisation is widely believed to disadvantage some groups in society. In fact, current debates on the effect of globalisation on Western...

This paper examines theoretically and empirically how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. We...

The aim of this paper is to make a first step towards studying the role of social expenditure and its interaction with corporate taxation in...

We show that the firm-size distribution is an important determinant of the relationship between an industry’s employment and output. A...

This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical...

How do labour market policies influence employment's responsiveness to output fluctuations (employment-output elasticity)? We revisit this...