The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

The fact that members of an immigrant community may have different demographiccharacteristics, or may have different tastes, to the indigenous population, may manifestitself in differences in saving behaviour. In addition, depending on their ethnicbackground, there could be differences among the...

This paper draws on the policy transfer literature to examine a UK-based initiative topromote supplier diversity and provides insights to three areas neglected in currentresearch. Namely: the dynamics of non-governmental policy transfer; the factors thatmediate policy transfer in different...

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier zeigt zunächst erzeitigen Bedingungen aus Sicht der privaten Haushalte und stellt dann Aorderungen an haushaltsgerechte Oberflächen dar.

Das Wort "Innovationen" ist in aller Munde, wenn es um wirtschaftliche Perspektiven einer Region oder gar eines Staates geht. So denkt man auch auf individueller Ebene: Innovation bringt Erfolg und Erfolg bringt Reichtum. Also sagt sich auch das Gründer-Fritzchen: Wenn ich viel haben will, dann...

The next two decades will see a radical transformation in the way cars are made. Driven by increased consumer demands for performance and service, as well as new materials, technologies, and car designs, hundreds of automotive plants around the world will undergo significant--and costly--changes...