In this guide, we discuss the impact of digitalization on the music industry. We rely on market and survey data at the … technological protection of digital music and describes new business models as well as consumers' attitude towards music downloads … and audio-streaming. We conclude the guide by a discussion of the evolution of the music industry. …

copies provide information about the originals may be useful for the analysis of digital music copying. …

in many countries and more needs to be done to make growth more “inclusive”.In the second part we estimate the trend … the growth rates of GDP trend. For Africa as a hole and for most countries we find relatively low trend growth rates until … the mid-nineties. Since then the trend growth rates rose remarkably - for Africa from 2 % to about 5 %. In the last five …

In this paper an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose U.S. real GDP into trend and cycle components … the long-run development during the last 50 years can be represented by a segmented linear trend with a break in the drift …

In this paper, an Unobserved Components Model is employed to decompose German real GDP into the trend, cycle and …

with a reliable estimation of the trend component at the end of the data sample. To this end we employ time-varying values … of the flexible penalization the trend component of temperature is still increasing, possibly with a somewhat lower pace. …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …