Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Digital Healthcare in Germany—An Overview -- Chapter 3. Innovation, Incentives, and Information Technology in the Healthcare Industry -- Chapter 4. Digital Health Applications – DiGAs – Pathway to Reimbursement -- Chapter 5. Inpatient Market Access for...

This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany’s means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with an unconditional basic income. The basic income scheme introduced is based on a negative income tax and calibrated to be both financially feasible and compatible with current...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

1 Introduction and Motivation -- 2 Why and How Does Economic Activity Grow? An Overview of the Literature -- 3 Why and How Does Economic Activity Concentrate in Space? Another Overview of the Literature -- 4 Spatial Knowledge Spillovers and the Dynamics of Agglomeration and Regional Growth -- 5...

1 Introduction -- 2 Theory -- 3 Empirical Basis -- 4 Data Collection -- 5 Rating of Locations -- 6 The Influence of Firm Characteristics -- 7 The Influence of Location Factors -- 8 The Relation between Distance and Rating -- 9 Development over Time -- 10 A Wider Perspective -- 11 Summary and...

The study provides a comparative empirical analysis of the dynamics of unemployment in the United States and West Germany. Based on longitudinal data and recent microeconometric methods, the analysis discusses different explanations for both the higher inflow into as well as the higher outflow...