1. Post-Faustmann Forest Resource Economics -- Part one: Human behaviour and forest resource economics -- 2. Are Forest User Groups Rational Economic or Social Agents? Experimental Evidence from India -- 3. Complexity Theory and Forest Resource Economics -- 4. Modeling Forest Sector Structural...

In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called Hartz IV reform. This book evaluates key characteristics of the reform from a microeconometric perspective. It investigates whether a centralized or decentralized organization of welfare...

Introduction -- Background for the Empirical Analyses: Institutional Details and Data -- Centralized versus Decentralized Welfare Administration -- The Employment Effects of an Intensified Use of Benefit Sanctions -- The Effectiveness of Temporary Extra Jobs and Short-Term Training Programs --...