A Universal Basic Income (UBI): a price worth paying to cut regulations?

Suppose the government redistributed to every adult Briton a basic, unconditional income of £10,000 from tax revenues. Would aggregate employment levels a) rise, b) …

Displacement Jobs – On the Swedish Employment Subsidies

The Swedish labor market makes use of twelve different forms of employment subsidies involving three percent of the entire active work force.
In this …

Skill Mismatch: The New Challenge for Spain

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 …

The Solution to the Spanish Pension System

It is increasingly evident that public pensions are going to be hard to sustain in the future: the ratio of workers to pensioners is …

The case for the gig economy: better organisation, easier taxation and an open labour market

Eva Forslund // 06.09.2016
 
Uber, Airbnb, and BlaBlaCar – the sharing economy is, although still controversial, well established in Europe. So much so …

Spain’s new labour market: a success story for free marketeers

Diego Sánchez de la Cruz // 18.07.2016
 
The introduction of a higher degree of flexibility in the Spanish labour market has created one …

Tax and labour market reform in Spain: a work in progress

Diego Sánchez de la Cruz // 03.05.2016
When former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his Socialist party (PSOE) took office in early …

The French State of Emergency

Greta Gietz // 28.01.2016
With the migrant crisis preoccupying Europe’s media and public debates, France’s “economic and social emergency” is easily forgotten.
France reported …

The Mariel boatlift and the economic impact of refugees

Diego Zuluaga // 23.11.2015
Those of you familiar with the 1983 cult classic Scarface by Brian de Palma will remember that it begins with …