The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master's and senior bachelor's students on related...

This paper presents preliminary results from an empirical analysis of the individual and macroeconomic deter-minants of reservation wages, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset provides an interesting perspective on the dynamics of reservation...

Using data from the 1994-1996 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this prospective longitudinal study investigates the association between job displacement and subsequent self-assessed health (SAH). The sample consists of 253 displaced workers and a comparison group of 6,934...

In dieser Arbeit wird der verbreitete Irrtum korrigiert, die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit unter den Geringqualifizierten werde dadurch verursacht, dass die Höhe der Sozialhilfe einen Anspruchs-oder Mindestlohn darstelle. In einem mikroökonomischen Modell des Arbeitsangebots wird gezeigt, wie der...