This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch sind aktuelle Praxisbeispiele und Handlungsempfehlungen zur Gestaltung von Arbeit und Produktivität in der digitalisierten Welt beschrieben. Die Beispiele wurden von Unternehmen und wissenschaftlichen Instituten in mehreren Forschungsprojekten entwickelt und in der...

In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the United States. I build an incomplete market model with educational choice combined with a task-based model on the production side. I consider two channels through which...