The increasing dynamism and complexity of business environmentsmeans that early recognition and monitoring of technological, market,political and social developments is becoming increasingly significant toinnovative success.In order to successfully identify innovation opportunities and risks,...

The main objectives of the study are to illuminate the development of the Common AgriculturalPolicy (CAP) up to the Agenda 2000 reforms, to evaluate the reform decision of June2003, and to show and discuss options for the future development of the CAP.In chapter 2 the objectives of the CAP are...

The assessment of the role for the EU and the member states in environmental andagricultural policy in this paper is based on the principle of subsidiarity. Applied to thequestion of centralisation versus decentralisation of policy design and implementation, thesubsidiarity principle states that...

This paper analyzes the effect of Product Market Regulation (PMR) on unemployment in asearch model with heterogeneous multiple-worker firms. In our setup, PMR modifies thedistribution of firm productivities, thereby affecting the equilibrium rate of unemployment...

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level,this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market formanufactured goods...<br<

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginalemployment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hoursusing a new panel data set...

In den siebziger und achtziger Jahren erlebte das Zahntechnikerhandwerkeinen starken wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung. Hintergrund war vor allem dieTatsache, dass die Krankenkassen ab Mitte der 70er Jahre die Kosten fürZahnersatz zu 100 Prozent zu tragen hatten. In der westdeutschen...