Am 16. Februar 2000 vollendete Professor Vincenz Timmermann sein 65. Lebensjahr. Er hat sich - weit über die Stätten seiner wissenschaftlichen Tätigkeit hinaus - einen Ruf als vielseitiger und engagierter Wirtschaftswissenschaftler erworben. Mit dieser Festschrift möchten Kollegen und...

This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between...

In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...