Immervoll, H., Jenkins, P. S. & Königs, S. (2015) “Are Recipients of Social Assistance ‘Benefit Dependent’? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries“, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Discussion Paper No. 8786, Ιανουάριος 2015.   ABSTRACT Are Recipients of Social Assistance ‘Benefit Dependent’? Concepts, Measurement and Results for Selected Countries Means-tested Social Assistance (SA) benefits play an important role as social protection floors supporting households in financial difficulties. …Read More

Świeboda, P. (2015) “What Will Populism Do To Europe?“, Social Europe Journal, 15 Ιανουαρίου.   There has been much wishful thinking in Europe that populism will vanish once growth rates pick up. Those who have believed in this unlikely miracle tended to assume that the populist upsurge is a natural reaction to economic misery brought about by the crisis. In this, they are only partly right. Populism is as much …Read More

Rodrik, D. (2015) “From Welfare State To Innovation State, Social Europe Journal, 15 Ιανουαρίου.   A specter is haunting the world economy – the specter of job-killing technology. How this challenge is met will determine the fate of the world’s market economies and democratic polities, in much the same way that Europe’s response to the rise of the socialist movement during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shaped the …Read More

Lodefalk, Μ. (2015) “Tear down the trade-policy silos! Or how the servicification of manufacturing makes divides in trade policymaking irrelevant“, VoxEU Organisation, 16 Ιανουαρίου.   The manufacturing sector in OECD countries increasingly buys, produces, sells and exports services. This is now known as the servicification of manufacturing. This column, using firm-level data from Sweden, shows that as firms’ share of in-house services increases, so does their export intensity. The increasing …Read More

Briglauer, W., Frübing, S. & Vogelsang, I. (2015) “The Impact of Alternative Public Policies on the Deployment of New Communications Infrastructure – A Survey, Discussion Paper No. 15-003, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Ιανουάριος.   Abstract Our survey reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on all alternative policies to promote the deployment of new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive externalities, dynamic efficiency …Read More

Mitchell, B. (2015) “While Europe debates a placebo the disaster deepens“, Bill Mitchell Blog: Modern Monetary Theory… Macroeconomic Reality, 12 Ιανουαρίου.   The youth are our future. The future is for our youth. Poverty used to be a problem of the aged as they left employment and entered retirement. Shorter life spans than now meant it was a relatively short-lived but deplorable state for people to end in. All that …Read More