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Evidence-Based Scientific Policy Advice

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Authors:
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Number:
243/2014

Abstract: While policy measures affect the welfare of nations, the practice of policy advice is determined by complex rules. Evidence-based scientific policy advice gives weight to hard
empirical facts and restrictions. The lecture discusses challenges and conditions for success
and provides suggestions to improve the implementation of such a strategy

Keywords: role of economists, methodology of policy advice, labor reform policies