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...

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...

The German government has spent between 7bn and 11bn Euro per year on active labor market policies (ALMP) in East Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as job-creation schemes and vocational training has been...

Kaum ein Politikfeld erscheint denBürgerinnen und Bürgern so undurchsichtigund komplex wie die Agrarpolitik der EuropäischenUnion (EU). Der Agrarsektor ist nachwie vor einer der am stärksten durch Subventionengeförderten Wirtschaftszweige.3 Weraber wann wie viel staatliche...

Offener Brief des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie zum Thema Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen. Dabei wird insbesondere auf die Förderung von Mitarbeiterbeteiligungen bei Geringverdienern, auf Betriebsebene und durch Fonds eingegangen.