We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor … describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … log points for the level, and 9 to 16 for productivity growth. The strongest estimated impacts arise from sales to foreign …

The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the … organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this … restructuring process: advances in production technologies promoting technological task complementarities, advances in information …

that schooling and training are complementary but become more substitutable in a restructuring environment. Additional … skills may increase as uncertainty is resolved and restructuring proceeds. …

Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on … networks have no impact on integration. There is strong evidence that political integration and the degree of full integration …

Erfolgsaussichten für die gesellschaftliche Integration, die bei höher qualifizierten Zuwanderern durchweg sehr viel leichter gelingt …. Das enthebt Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft nicht der Aufgabe, auch die Integration der schon in Deutschland lebenden … Migrationshintergrund nicht länger leisten. Sie braucht beides: mehr qualifizierte Zuwanderung und mehr Integration. …

integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and …

concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants "switches off" observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …