30 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall gleicht sich die Unternehmenslandschaft im Osten zunehmend der Situation in den alten Bundesländern an. Laut der Studie vom ZEW – Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung stieg der Anteil großer Familienunternehmen am Gesamtbestand der...

We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model directly time use by youngsters into activities related to the acquisition of human capital,...

In this paper we suggest an alternative approach to testing for the dual structure of the labour market. The novelty of the suggested approach is that rather than considering wage determination we concentrate on the turnover. To perform the test we suggest using a latent class count data...