Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

"We exploit an exogenous increase in General Educational Development (GED) testing requirements to determine whether raising the difficulty of the test causes students to finish high school rather than drop out and GED certify. We find that a six point decrease in GED pass rates induces a 1.3...

Nach den Vorausschätzungen der EUROCONSTRUCT-Partnerinstitute, die sich am 6. und 7. Juni 2002 in Dublin zur 53. EUROCONSTRUCT-Konferenz trafen, wird die Zahl der fertiggestellten Wohneinheiten in neu errichteten Wohngebäuden im laufenden Jahr um über 100 000 WE auf etwa 1,95 Mill. Wohnungen...