An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis monthly journal of record presents summary estimates and analyses of U.S. economic activity. It includes articles about the national, regional, and international economic accounts and related topics. It also presents the latest estimates of the national...

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. Ten key measures comprise an index of child well-being used to rank states and supplemental data on education, health, and economic conditions for each state. Data from the 2003 KIDS COUNT Data Book...

Erfolgreiche Geschäfte im anspruchsvollen japanischen Markt sind für deutsche Unternehmendurchaus möglich - entsprechendes Engagement und planvolle Vorbereitungvorausgesetzt. Dies hatte eine 1996 im Auftrag der Gesellschaft für WirtschaftsförderungNordrhein-Westfalen mbH vom...

Stellt sich das Investitionsklima für deutsche Unternehmen seit der Krise von 1997/98 in Korea tatsächlich so positiv dar, wie Medienberichte und Wirtschaftszahlen suggerieren oder ist die Entwicklung möglicherweise nur auf einige wenige "Großeinkäufe" deutscher Großunternehmen...

Der "rationale Kapitalismus" ist kein Phänomen der Realität, sondern seinerseits eine Selbstbeschreibung des Beobachters, die dann vor allem auch in normativen Analysen eingesetzt wird. Dann entpuppt sich die "Asienkrise" plötzlich als eine Krise der Kultur des Beobachters, der seiner eigenen...

In this paper we question the consensus of using a binary crisisdefinition for empirical crisis models. We believe that the most severeshortcomings of the crisis models today are in the crisis definition rather than the explanatory variables ...

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changesthat have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens withadequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on datafor 24 European Union countries,...

The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-warhistory appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to bea strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important factors that have contributed tothis development include...

The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact onnational labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also variedgreatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurancebenefits and minimum...