"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.

Theorien zur internationalen Migration von hochqualifizierten Arbeitskräften -- Zuwanderung ausländischer IT-Fachkräfte nach Deutschland -- Greencard für ausländische IT-Fachkräfte -- Internationale Verflechtungen informationsorientierter Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Rekrutierung von...

Zukunftsaufgabe Migrations- und Integrationspolitik: Lernen vom Ländervergleich -- Die Einwanderungssituation in Deutschland und Dänemark -- Bildung und Ausbildung — Erfolge von Zuwanderern beim Humankapitalerwerb? -- Beschäftigung und Einkommen — Gelingt die Integration der Zuwanderer in...

Durch die Umstrukturierungen und Neuausrichtungen zahlreicher Unternehmen, insbesondere im Zuge der Digitalisierung und Globalisierung, hat sich der Arbeitsalltag von Führungskräften und leitenden Angestellten drastisch verändert. Der enorme Anpassungsdruck hat direkte Auswirkungen auf die...

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of training are analyzed, explicitly accounting for the...

This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, the goal being to share first-hand insights from respected organizations and to make digitalization more tangible. As virtually every economic and societal sector is now being challenged by emerging technologies, the...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's...