The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China's large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei einzelnen Aufsätzen, die empirisch die Auswirkungen von demographischen Größen auf unterschiedliche ökonomische Aspekte untersucht. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf Industrienationen, die der OECD angehören. Diese Ländergruppe ist bereits stark vom...

In this review we expose the OECD Income Distribution Database to critical scrutiny, identifying its strengths and weaknesses. As it is almost inevitable in any critical assessment, we could not avoid being somewhat biased toward highlighting the limitations, without being similarly emphatic...

This paper examines critically the presumption that, other things equal, private schooling offers higher quality education than public schooling. We apply multilevel regression on the 2009 PISA to estimate the differential effect of public and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We...