The German Federal government has allowed some regions (Approved Local Providers) to be solely responsible for the care of long-term unemployed. The remaining regions had to form Joint Local Agencies, where the local social benefit administrations work together with the local public employment...

Six years have passed since the so-called 'long summer of migration' of 2015, and the numbers of newly arriving asylum-seekers in Germany have flattened. However, as one of the main receiving countries of refugees, other challenges are coming into focus. Besides labour market participation and...

Die fortschreitende Diffusion von E-Government ist ein Phänomen, dem in der internationalen Forschungsliteratur bereits viel Aufmerksamkeit zu Teil wurde. Erstaunlich wenige Studien widmen sich bislang jedoch dezidiert dem Faktor Interdependenz, der eigentlichen Ursache von Diffusionsprozessen....