Economic growth is a key issue in economic research and a primary concern in economic policy making. After World War II, Western economies experienced historically high rates of economic growth. However, following the first oil crisis in 1973, a period of stagflation set in and in the 1980s,...

During the last several decades developed economies underwent salient employment shifts from manufacturing toward service production. This dissertation investigates the meaning of these changes for the occupational and skill structure of the German economy. It elaborates on the skills and...

Veränderte Rahmenbedingungen und neue Herausforderungen machen eine kritische Reflexion und Aktualisierung des Wissens über Raumentwicklung, Raumpolitik und Raumplanung erforderlich. Deshalb gibt die Akademie für Raumforschung und Landesplanung (ARL) mit dem Grundriss der Raumordnung und...