Einführung -- Einführung -- Juristische Aspekte -- Verfassungs- und systemgerechte Besteuerung von Ehe und Familie -- Zur Verfassungsmäßigkeit des Ehegattensplittings -- Ehe-interne Verteilung von Einkommen: Recht und Realität -- Das Ehegattensplitting und die Einheit der Rechtsordnung --...

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of educational inequalities and their consequences on individual labor market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countries with different education systems. Using microdata from the two countries, the analyses mainly rely on...

In der Schweiz haben gewisse Steuerpflichtige die Wahl zur Besteuerung nach dem Aufwand. Wegen der stetig steigenden Anzahl pauschal besteuerter Personen sowie der daraus resultierenden Steuererträge ist dieses Besteuerungsmodell für die Befürworter ein wirksames Instrument im internationalen...

This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events. Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as...

This book develops John Rawls’s theory of justice by adding reality-based analyses. This is accomplished by answering the question of who makes rules and how, and by providing new answers to three of today’s most practical and critical issues. The question of who and how makes rules is...

1. Introduction -- 2. Spatial Disparities and Poverty: The Case of Three Provinces in the Philippines -- 3. Decomposing Poverty Change in India: Within- and Between-Group Effects Across Regions, 2004-05 and 2009-10 -- 4.Pathways Out of Rural Poverty and the Role of Agriculture in Four...

Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a...

This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets...

Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place...

1 The Importance of Education for Sustainability in Tourism -- PART I Tourism and Sustainability: Core Knowledge -- 2 Tourism and Sustainability: Challenges, Conflict and Core Knowledge -- 3 Ethics in Tourism -- 4 Corporate Social Responsibility and Tourism -- 5 Tourism and Governance -- PART II...