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 reviews recent approaches for partial identification of average treatment effects with instrumental variables in the program evaluation literature, including Manski’s bounds, bounds based on threshold crossing models, and bounds based on the Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE)...

Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...

Identification of Performance Measurement Systems Applied in Polish Enterprises -- The Impact on the Organisational Effects of the Implementation of ERP and Selected Management Methods -- Industry Concentration and Performance: Case of Life Insurance Industry -- Communication Infrastructure and...

Maria Schneider-Reißig untersucht das Wissen und die Fähigkeiten von Verbrauchern im Umgang mit Krediten. Dies wird unter dem Begriff Debt Literacy subsumiert. Die Autorin erstellt ein Konzept für Debt Literacy, das auf Ergebnissen von Expertenbefragungen basiert. Mit einer Kreditwissensnorm...

Besonderheiten des Versicherungsgeschäfts -- Grundlagen des Kundenwerts für Versicherungsunternehmen -- Ertragswert als Determinante des Kundenwerts -- Entwicklungswert als Determinante des Kundenwerts -- Cross-Selling-Wert als Determinante des Kundenwerts -- Referenzwert als Determinante des...