Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....

Die deutsche Elektroindustrie ist auch 2018 weiter gewachsen. Zwar waren die Steigerungsraten nicht mehr so hoch wie im Jahr zuvor. Dennoch erreichte die Branche sowohl beim Umsatz als auch beim Export neue Höchstwerte. Zudem stellten die Unternehmen mehr Personal ein. Im laufenden Jahr...

Die Herstellung von Metallerzeugnissen ist eine wichtige Zulieferindustrie für weitere Branchen des Produzierenden Gewerbes. Matthias Opfinger, Handelsblatt Research Institute, zeigt die Entwicklung der Branche. So gehören zu den Abnehmern neben anderen Betrieben aus dem eigenen...

In many occupations workers? labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difficult. Here we present evidence from studies examining labor supply responses in...

The paper derives analytical transitions probabilities following an exogenous shock to the deterministic component in the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the postestimation distribution of the models stochastic component, identified on the basis of a direct utility maximization...

Because their departures are difficultly observed, little is known about the performance of immigrants who leave a region and move to another. This paper shows conditions under which the (conditional) outmigration probability, work probability and the expected earnings of outmigrants are...

When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result, workers in computer-adopting labor market groups experience an...

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...