Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine überarbeitete Version meiner Magisterarbeit, die ich im Jahre 2011 am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) angefertigt und an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen eingereicht habe. Im...

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the main specificities of latecomers' processes of technological development. Building on the basis of this understanding, it searches for the reasons why the conventional measures of Science and Technology (S&T) policies, usually inspired by...

There are over 180 ILO conventions in many areas of labour law, industrial relations and social security, but they are not ratified universally: for the conventions adopted between 1975 and 1995, the cumulated probability of ratification is about 13 per cent ten years after their adoption. In...

I quantify the importance of financial structure, labor market rigidities and industry mix for cross-country asymmetries in monetary transmission. To do so, I determine how closely the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock obtained from country-specific vectorautoregressive (VAR) models...