Deutschland ist in den Bemühungen, die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit deutlich zu verringern, in den letzten Jahren nicht sehr erfolgreich gewesen. Um das weitgehende Scheitern der bisherigen Arbeitsmarkt- und Beschäftigungspolitik zu beschönigen, wird häufig behauptet, Arbeit sei grundsätzlich...

Throughout the world, strong dispersions of both regional and national unemployment rates can be observed. The economic theory has developed various explanations on how this differences occur. Corresponding models mainly aim at institutional and political framework, insider effects, efficiency...

This paper explores the determinants of stagflation. Three measures are proposed that gauge both the occurrence and the strength of stagflation. We investigate the empirical determinants of these measures, accounting for a range of theoretical hypotheses that have been discussed since the...

Stagflation has decayed the world economy during the 1970s and the early 1980s. Recent empirical studies suggest that particularly the oil crises of 1973 and 1979 led to these high stagflationary periods. However, there are still some questions unanswered: is stagflation still a problem in the...

We study the effect of entrepreneurship on economic growth. First, we illustrate that entrepreneurship affects the investment decision in horizontal and vertical innovations within endogenous growth models. As a direct consequence, the level of entrepreneurship exerts significant growth stimuli....