In Portugal duration of benefits is exclusively age determined while replacement rates are toall intents and purposes uniform. We exploit differences in potential maximum duration ofbenefits for nearly matched pairs of individuals who differ in age by one year and in potentialmaximum duration of...

The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at thesame time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on thetransitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largestimmigrant groups:...

In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effectsof benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemploymentdurations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany...

The Czech accounting norms are definitions of regular financial statements, irregular financial statements and interim financial statements. For requirements irregular accounting information practice life need information in type financial statements in another situations. These situations are...

A huge cross-section literature, written by economists and others, argues that human well-being is U-shaped through the life cycle. In many cases this U-shape is robust (with a well-known exception the pattern evident in some U.S. data sets if few independent variables are included). However, a...

Seit 2007 ermittelt das IfM Bonn die Dauer und Kosten von administrativen Gründungsverfahren für den EU-weiten Vergleich in drei ausgewählten Kom-munen (Bremerhaven, Meißen und München). Für das Jahr 2010 hat das IfM Bonn die Erhebung auf alle Bundesländer ausgeweitet, so dass erstmals...

Strategy games are a popular part of today's management training in education and business. Complex economic interrelationships can be illustrated and interdependencies of economic decisions can be more easily understood. Most business games work with a discrete time model, i.e., decisions are...