The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...

This paper deals with the much discussed question how to design labor market policy in a global economy. The starting point of the paper is the fact that national unemployment rates differ greatly, which alludes to country-specific institutional factors being the most plausible culprit for...

Norbert Berthold, Nadya Kosturkova und Andreas Müller, Universität Würzburg, evaluieren in ihrer aktuellen Studie Erfolg und Aktivitäten der Bundesländer im Zeitraum 2006 bis 2008. Die Studie misst den Erfolg der einzelnen Bundesländer anhand von sechs Zielgrößen. Diese werden zu einem...