"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.

This book examines survey data to consider the extent to which public support for immigration, international trade, and foreign direct investment exists in a cohort of 38 heterogeneous countries. With economic globalization shaping daily life, understanding the determinants of public opinion is...

Economic globalization is a complex phenomenon where the links between social security expenditures and globalization are not well understood so far. This study summarizes new key findings and highlights new theoretical insights in the field of social security systems, labor standards, taxation...

Globale Fluchtbewegungen und Migrationsrouten -- Regionale Hot Spots -- Flucht- und Migrationsgründe -- Transnationalität als Lebensform -- Partizipation als Fortsetzung der Integration -- Lösungsansätze.

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 book examines the economic consequences of immigration and asylum migration, it focuses on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context