This comprehensive textbook published by Oxford University Press applies economic analysis to public law. The economic analysis of law has revolutionized legal scholarship and teaching in the last half-century, but it has focused mostly on private law, business law, and criminal law. This book...

Die Arbeitskosten eines Landes dienen oft als Erklärung für seine Wettbewerbsstärke, die Standortattraktivität und die Arbeitsmarktlage. Daher stoßen internationale Arbeitskostenvergleiche auf großes öffentliches Interesse. Es existiert jedoch keine eindeutige Definition des Begriffs...

Hedonische Immobilienpreisindizes, die auf Transaktionsdaten basieren, stellen einen vielversprechenden Indikator für institutionelle Investoren dar. Ihr Vorteil ist, dass durch Qualitätsbereinigungen der Heterogenität der Immobilien besser Rechnung getragen werden kann. Üblicherweise gibt...

Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

The interest for household production has grown since the release of the new System of National Accounts in 2008. In this paper we analyse how accounting for own-use production may affect labour statistics. Traditional headcount ratios may not be very informative when employment rates consider...

Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid growth in program costs; greater awareness that people with impairments are able and willing to...

Highlighting the revival of industrial-policy thinking in an era of globalisation and disenchantment with free trade, this paper reviews alternative and, in part, competing theoretical foundations of industrial policy: neoclassical foundations, structuralist approaches, and pragmatic approaches...