"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.

This book explores family economic decision-making in the United States from the nineteenth century through present day, specifically looking at the relationship between family resource allocation decisions and government policy. It examines how families have responded to incentives and...

The publication of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America has kindled interest across disciplines to appraise the exceptional nature of U.S. activities. In general, however, all the published works have not focused their analyses from an economic point of view. While economics was for...

This book analyses the causes and consequences of deflation. In contrast to the widespread believe that deflation would be harmful to the economy as a whole, the author argues that free market deflation is liberating and beneficial. Several myths of deflation are exposed and the reasons for the...

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...

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...