Motivated by the recognition that geography is often correlated with, or an importantdeterminant of, the overall quality of agricultural products, consumer groups, industryrepresentatives, and domestic and trade representatives have increasingly considered thepotential role of geographical...

This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...

Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack ofinformation on the immigrants´ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting whois allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civilstrife in the home...

Das Wanderungsverhalten von qualifizierten Arbeitskräften ist einwichtiger Indikator zur Beurteilung der internationalen WettbewerbsfähigkeitDeutschlands. In wie weit es gelingt, deutscheFach- und Führungskräfte aus dem wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichenBereich am Standort zu halten...

This paper analyses the long-term effects of improved small-scale lending, often provided by microfinance institutions set up with the support of development aid. The analysis shows that some common assumptions about microfinance are not true at all: First, it shows that the impact on income...

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries´ institutional quality affect the shadoweconomy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of...

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data...