Wer möchte nicht Herr oder Frau im eigenen Haus sein – und möglichst für immer bleiben? Schalten und Walten können, ohne Rücksicht auf andere nehmen zu müssen – ein Traum von Selbständigkeit. Manch ein Gründer sieht sich schon als der allgewaltige und verehrte Chef seines Hauses mit...

Romantic partners’ similarity in gender role attitudes affects important outcomes such as sharing of housework, relationship stability, or fertility. However, there is little knowledge about how similar romantic partners are in these attitudes. Using dyadic panel data from German couples...

We analyze optimal contracts and optimal matching patterns in a simple model of partnershipwhere there is a double-sided moral hazard problem and potential partners differ intheir productivity in two tasks. It is possible for one individual to accomplish both tasks (soleproduction) and there are...

This paper analyzes the role of public and private responsibility in the provision of publicgoods. We emphasize that a typical public good will require many different inputs whichraises the possibility of partnerships to exploit comparative advantages of different parties.But hold-up problems...

This paper considers critically the question of what constitutes „local partnership‟, including the stated meanings and implicit power relationships within, for instance, public/private partnerships, specific projects such as Building Schools for the Future or the „area partnership‟...

You can’t blame everything on the Romans. Eventhough they introduced the legal framework ofpartnerships and corporations in Germany and farbeyond, the reason why the taxation of partnershipsis so complex is not their fault. Put simply, onceindividuals with different characteristics are...

Als Arbeitsgemeinschaft evangelischer Kirchen vermittelt Dienste in Übersee (DÜ) seine Entwicklungshelfer zumeist in kirchliche Projekte. In einigen der Länder, in denen potentielle kirchliche Partner noch relativ schwach sind, arbeitet DÜ direkt mit Regierungsstellen zusammen. So auch in...

There are two broad trends in industrialised countries motivating this paper: On the one hand, the life phase between youth and adulthood has prolonged and diversified; on the other hand, entering the labour market has become more complex and insecure. In this paper we combine two aspects of these...