Epicenter Archives
28 April 2017
As the Spanish economy recovers, rethinking education reform should be a top priority. Spanish workers are Europe’s most overqualified, but also suffer from the …
12 April 2017
Current schooling systems are badly equipped to deal with rapid technological innovation and changing work patterns such as the sharing economy and the rise …
6 February 2017
Decisions on childcare arrangements were largely a private matter until the 1990s. A political consensus has since arisen that government action is needed to …
Caroline Burleigh // 27 March 2017
What would F.A. Hayek make of the current state of the EU? The renowned economist had a specific vision in mind: The model he …
Caroline Burleigh // 17 March 2017
On Tuesday 14th March, the European Parliament committees on Foreign Affairs and Development debated the report on the role of EU external action addressing …
15 March 2017
Labour market mobility in the European Union is increasing, but it remains too low to provide sufficient internal socio-economic adjustments. This situation reflects non-policy …
Briana Chui // 9 February 2017
The European Union has ensured free movement between Member States for posted workers with the 1996 Posting of Workers Directive; that is, it has …
Giovanni Caccavello // 18 January 2017
Over the last few years, European politics has been profoundly shaken by the emergence of nationalist and populist parties. The rise of anti-immigration rhetoric, …
9 January 2017
It is increasingly evident that public pensions are going to be hard to sustain in the future: the ratio of workers to pensioners is …
5 January 2017
People greatly overestimate the immigrant share of the population and many wrongly believe that openness to migration harms Britons’ job prospects, burdens public finances …
Dr Kristian Niemietz, Head of Health and Welfare at the IEA // 21.10.2016 I think it was Montesquieu who once said that ‘when …
Diego Zuluaga // 04.05.2016 A law banning short-term apartment rentals just came into force in Berlin. The measure, which was passed in 2014 but …
1 December 2015 Existing evidence from large refugee migrations and the recent influx of Syrian migrants into Middle Eastern countries shows no adverse effects …
Nicolò Zanon, November 2015 In this IBL Occasional Paper, the author – a Justice of Italy’s Constitutional Court – discusses the legal and economic …
Christopher Snowdon, October 2015 In October 2015, David Cameron said: “Britain has the lowest social mobility in the developed world.” No such …
Ralph Buckle, Tim Hewish, John C. Hulsman, Iain Mansfield, Robert Oulds, February 2015 It is quite possible that there will be a referendum on …
Malin Sahlén, October 2014 The free movement of workers across Member States is one the main historic achievements of the European integration process. …
Fredrik Segerfeldt, Timbro, September 2014 In the mid-1700s Europe and North America broke with thousands of years of economic stagnation. When power …
Jagadeesh Gokhale, March 2014 Western governments have developed unfunded social insurance programmes where retiree benefits are paid for from the taxes of …
Gabriel H. Sahlgren, IEA, January 2014 The benefits of increasing labour participation rates in old age flow both to the individual – …
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