"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...

This paper attempts to bridge the gap between previous cross-national work estimating rates of return to education and the current trend toward examining rates over time. Changes in the returns to education in the 1980s over five countries were driven by different forces across the countries.

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.

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland -- 2 Two Wealthy Economies and Their Development -- 3 Are the Standards of Living Similar or Dissimilar?- 4 Happiness in Denmark and Switzerland.- Part II: Two Models of Good...

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...

This chapter presents a cross-national portrait of gender equality in the labor market in the early 1990s, based on Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data from fifteen countries. Cross-country comparisons are analyzed in the context of variation both across, and within, the three welfare state...

This paper examines how far Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden have achieved gender equality in earnings. These Nordic countries are contrasted with Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, and include some comparisons to the situation in the 1980s. While all these...

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...