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Natural Hazards Insurance in Europe ? Tailored Responses to Climate Change Needed

Schwarze, Reimund; Wagner, Gert G. - 2009

This paper provides an overview on the existing systems of natural hazards insurance in Europe, their structural …

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Germany's role in the foreign direct investment configuration of Korean multinational enterprises in Europe

Strüber, Chan-Mi - 2009

) within Europe. However, along with the internationalization of Korean firms, the motives and patterns for direct investments … MNEs within Europe are analyzed. The main findings indicate that Germany is considered more important to automobile …

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...

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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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Crisis Region Western Africa - The cradle of African migration to Europe

Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa and Fortress Europe - Threats and opportunities, (pp. 37-55). 2007

cradle of migration from Sub-Saharan Africa to Europe, were most African migrants with overseas destinations live. The … Europe, results in a transfer of knowledge and of innovations. …La région de crise ouest africaine - Le berceau de la migration africaine vers l'Europe : Dans les dernières décennies …

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Financial sector: Share of women on corporate boards increases slightly but men still call the shots

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 27-38

In 2015, the share of women in the top decision-making bodies of the financial sector increased once again but men remain in the overwhelming majority and thus continue to call the shots. At the end of 2015, women made up just under eight percent of executive board members of the 100 largest...

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Corporate boards of large companies: More momentum needed for gender parity

Holst, Elke; Kirsch, Anja - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 3, pp. 13-25

Germany's large corporations still have a long way to go before achieving balanced representation of men and women on their boards. At the end of 2015, the share of women on the executive boards of the top 200 companies in Germany was a good six percent, an increase of less than one percentage...

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Financial sector: Banks fall behind and now have a lower proportion of women on executive and advisory boards than insurance companies

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 16-28

Women are still in the clear minority among the financial sector's top decision-making bodies. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, 21 percent of the supervisory and administrative board members of the 100 largest banks were female. The number has stagnated...

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Top decision-making bodies in large companies: Gender quota shows initial impact on supervisory boards executive board remains a male bastion

Holst, Elke; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 1/2, pp. 3-15

The gender quota for supervisory boards that has been mandatory since January 2016 has shown an initial impact. According to DIW Berlin's Women Executives Barometer, at the end of 2016, there were more women on the supervisory boards of the 106 companies subject to the statutory quota than one...

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Experts' Expectations of Future Vulnerability at the Peak of the "Refugee Crisis"

Riederer, Bernhard Edwin - 2018

Immigrant inflows in 2015 triggered manifold reactions all over Europe. Questions about the integration capacities of …

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