Nach den Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests vom September/Oktober geben die westdeutschen Industrieunternehmen 1992 mit knapp 100 Mrd. DM rund 3% weniger für Ausrüstsungen und Bauten aus als 1991. Sie haben also seit dem Frühjahr ihre Pläne nach unten korrigiert. Die Meldungen deuten...

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....

Der Beitrag zeigt die Perspektiven eines Landes auf, das sich in den letzten 20 Jahren zum führenden Ölexporteur der Welt entwickelte, Einfluß in der Welt und im Mittleren Osten gewann und zugleich eine der fundamentalsten sozio-ökonomischen Transformationen der modernen Zeit erlebte. Dieser...

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...

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...