The standardisation of the European systems of national accounts has progressed significantly in recent years. Some room for interpretation remains in regard to some accounting standards, the periodicity of the data, and the quality of the forecasts of budget deficits. Yet national accounts data...

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...

Dustmann/ Fitzenberger/ Schönberg/ Spitz-Oener (2014) praise the flexibility of German labour market institutions for the German turn-around from "Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar": The more decentralized, firm-specific wage-setting process since the mid-1990s increased wage inequality...

In 2004, Eurostat starts publishing new figures on hourly wage costs for all European countries. These figures are new in several respects: It is the first time that internationally comparable hourly figures on wage costs are available covering a quite important time period (1995-2005), so that...

Deutschland liegt bei den Arbeitskosten für die Privatwirtschaft im Mittelfeld der EU15-Staaten hinter den meisten nord- und westeuropäischen Industrieländern. 2004 mussten deutsche Arbeitgeber pro geleisteter Arbeitsstunde im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe und im privatem Dienstleistungsbereich...

Eine grundlegende Reform des Gesundheitswesens ist seit langem überfällig. Die Eckpunkte der Großen Koalition vom Juli sind jedoch in sich widersprüchlich, erhöhen die Lohnnebenkosten und verschärfen die ungleiche Wettbewerbsposition von gesetzlicher (GKV) und privater Krankenversicherung...