Given the increasingly international nature of cartels, crossing the boundaries of jurisdictions, co-operation in cartel cases is growing in importance. Co-operation can involve for instance, coordination of simultaneous searches, raids or inspections, exchange of information, discussions on gen...
Through the European Commission’s leniency programme, the first company to report its involvement in a cartel to the Commission can obtain immunity from fines. Make sure your company does report, before another cartel participant does so....
This study analyses the role of migrant workers in social care and the policy responses to this phenomenon in Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. In contrast to previous research on migrant care work, this study incorporates both private and agency-based employment in child and elderl...
This work comprises four essays in two related areas: labor and development economics. On the labor side, two essays study (i) the effects of sizeable policy reforms over labor informality and (ii) the relation between productivity and wages in a context of substantial informality and high turno...
More than 12 million people living in the European Community have moved from their country of origin to find work. At the beginning of the 1980s it was estimated that 27% of them came from other Member States. Once Spain and Portugal join, this proportion will rise to around 40%. Whether from wi...
This thesis focuses on different aspects of competition policy and analyses questions related to market power, collusion and the European Commission's fining policy. The first chapter provides a theoretical setting to study a particular abuse of dominant position, known as margin (or price) sque...
