The growing literature on the potential role of energy resources around the Caspian Sea is dominated by geoplitics whereas economic aspects have been largely neglected thus far. The relevance of Caspian oil and gas reserves continues to be praised, though objective data on production and exports...

Das Update des Führungskräfte-Monitors zeigt nach wie vor ein ernüchterndes Bild, was die Gleichstellung von Mann und Frau in Führungspositionen betrifft. So waren 27 Prozent der Führungskräfte in der Privatwirtschaft im Jahr 2008 Frauen. Damit ist der Anteil genauso hoch wie 2006. Im...

In this paper institutions are understood as rules of individual behavior. The focus is on the impacts of institutions on labor market decisions. Particular points are (1) the methods (or rules) that model individual decisions in neoclassical economics (rational choice approach), (2) implicit...

In addition to employed and unemployed persons, other groups of the society, namely parts of the so-called non-economically active persons, also often enter gainful employment, although they are generally not taken into account in the theoretical and empirical determinations of a country's...