The contributions in this book highlight, contextualize and analyze different aspects of social inequality. What are the various cause and effects of inequality? How have these changed over recent decades? Which social policies might be best able to intervene? Written by authors from a variety...

Hauptzielrichtung des Arbeitskreises ist die Suche nach tragfähigen Ansätzen für eine regionale Entwicklung in ländlichen Räumen, die ökologischen, ökonomischen und sozialen Aspekten gleichermaßen Rechnung trägt. Der Arbeitskreis hat sich bei seinen Arbeiten auf ein "moderates" Konzept...

Quarterly data of magazine circulation are used to analyse the consumption behaviour of the readers of German popular magazines in a panel framework using OLS, 2SLS and generalized method of moments techniques, in order to test the rational addiction hypothesis in respect with goods without any...

In this paper, we examine students' attitudes towards various allocation mechanisms for a scarce resource. For this purpose, we have run a survey among officers of the German military who are enrolled in different courses of study (such as economics) at the University of the German Federal Armed...