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...

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various componentspresented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate thephenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration...

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...

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes...

Die vorliegende Arbeit nimmt eine Bestandaufnahme zu den Systemen der Zielsteuerung (Controlling) in den öffentlichen Beschäftigungsdiensten von Dänemark, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Niederlanden, Österreich, Schweden und der Schweiz vor, um vor diesem Hintergrund die aktuellen...

In Deutschland steht die öffentlicheWahrnehmung der Osterweiterungder Europäischen Union(EU) zunehmend im Zeichen vonSorgen um die Zukunft inländischerArbeitsplätze. Im Umfelddes Beitritts der zehn neuen Mitgliedstaatenam 1. Mai 2004 häufensich Meldungen über anstehendeoder geplante...