The early COVID-19 pandemic literature focused on the conflict between lives and livelihoods. But cross-country evidence reveals that across countries high mortality rates were often associated with large gross domestic product contractions. This paper shows that the presumed trade-off was...

SMALLBONE D., CUMBERS A., SYRETT S. and LEIGH R. (1999) The Single European Market and SMEs: a comparison of its effects in the food and clothing sectors in the UK and Portugal, Reg. Studies 33 , 51-62. The creation of a Single European Market in 1992 represented an attempt to accelerate the...

Die Effizienz des Produktionsfaktors Energie gewinnt durch steigende Energiekosten und die nationalen CO²-Emmissionsziele an Bedeutung. In Deutschland existieren im produzierenden Gewerbe sowie in der Landwirtschaft eine Vielzahl kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen (KMU) deren...

Flexible work arrangements such as allowing employees to work at home are used in firms, especially since information and communication technologies have become so widespread. Using individual-level data from 10,884 German employees, this paper analyses the determinants of working at home as a...

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...

The article concerns new tax rules for home offices.

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie die aktuellen Wandlungsprozesse rund um das Thema Industrie 4.0 wahrgenommen werden und wovon die Wahrnehmung beeinflusst wird. Im Rahmen der Debatte um das Thema Industrie 4.0 kristallisieren sich drei Trends ( Hype , Hope und...

This study has as its objective to analyse the challenges and opportunities and to propose concrete, appropriate actions to make sure that Film Heritage Institutions (FHIs) across Europe are able to continue to fulfil their role in preserving the cinema of the past and that of the future, and to...