Ferdinando Giugliano, (2018), “Germany’s Wage Deal Is Good for Europe Too”, 8 Φεβρουαρίου Rarely has a round of wage negotiations been watched so closely as the recent dispute involving Germany’s IG Metall labor union. The agreement reached in Baden-Wuerttemberg with the Suedwestmetall employer’s federation, including a 4.3 percent raise from April and the right to a 28-hour working week, is a further sign that wage pressures are finally returning to …Read More

Marco Buti, Björn Döhring and José Leandro, (2018), “Increasingly fit again: The euro area economy is shedding the crisis legacies”, VoxEU, 8 Φεβρουαρίου The outlook for the euro area economy depends to a large extent on whether the impact of the crisis will turn out to be permanent or transitory. This column attempts to chart out the path ahead, starting from what different narratives of the ‘atypical recovery’ imply about …Read More

Elva Bova, Tidiane Kinda, Jaejoon Woo, (2018),  “Austerity and inequality: The size and composition of fiscal adjustment matter”, Vox, 7  Φεβρουαρίου Understanding the distributional consequences of fiscal adjustment measures is important for equity, but also to ensure the sustainability of the measures. This column shows that fiscal adjustments increase inequality, including through unemployment. Spending-based adjustments worsen inequality more significantly than tax-based adjustments. Progressive taxation and targeted social benefits and subsidies …Read More

Ναυτεμπορική, (2018), “Η Ελβετία «μητέρα όλων των φορολογικών παραδείσων”, 3 Φεβρουαρίου Στο μικροσκόπιο του δικτύου φορολογικής δικαιοσύνης «Tax Justice Network» με έδρα το Βερολίνο μπήκαν 112 χώρες και περιοχές του πλανήτη. Στο επίκεντρο των ερευνών τέθηκε κυρίως το ερώτημα πώς μπορεί κανείς να αποκρύψει σε μια χώρα ακίνητα και λοιπά περιουσιακά στοιχεία. Στο πλαίσιο αυτό ελέγχθηκαν οι σχετικές νομοθεσίες και ισχύοντες κανονισμοί των υπό εξέταση χωρών Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις Ειρήνη Χρυσολωρά, …Read More

Cristina Fernández, David Martínez Turégano, (2018), “Labour force participation growth in Europe will rely more on targeted policies than a socio-educational push”, Vox, 7  Φεβρουαρίου European labour force participation has increased over recent decades, fuelled in large part by increased female labour participation, improvements in education levels, and socioeconomic factors. This column explores whether this trend will continue, or whether we will see a decline similar to that in the …Read More