Die Arbeit stellt die Hauptlinien der im 20. Jahrhundert in West- und Osteuropa geführten Totalitarismus-Debatten dar, um die besonderen Merkmale von Cassirers Auseinandersetzung mit demselben Phänomen des Totalitarismus zu zeigen.Der Autor konzentriert sich auf Cassirers Kulturphilosophie und...

With the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC) having inextricably been interconnected with the international economy and with the increasing footprints of the Chinese firms globally, management styles too needed to be evolved accordingly. The generic literature on internationalization of firms...

This thesis shows that women's labour market participation, macroeconomic growth and family policies are closely linked to each other. Whereas there exists clear theoretical and empirical evidence that female labour market participation unambiguously promotes GDP growth, the inverse impact of...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus vier Aufsätzen, die zur empirischen Literatur der Allokation der Arbeitszeit beitragen. Der erste Artikel untersucht die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Arbeit und Sozialleben von Paaren und untersucht die Synchronisation der Arbeitszeiten. Ein neuer Analyseansatz wird...

The heterogeneous demographic composition of South African households means that the way that household income or expenditure is converted into an individual-level welfare measure is likely to matter. This paper examines the monetary and time costs of the most common economic dependents in...

Over the last decade a number of countries, notably the USA, theUK and Australia, have introduced new tax and welfare programs,or expanded existing programs, that have the effect of raising taxrates on the income of the second earner in the family. Examplesinclude the earned income tax credit...

With its recently announced strategy "Europe 2020", the European Union picks up two major challenges: transforming the economy into a knowledge society with innovation as the main driver of economic growth and cohering a population whose workforce is shrinking and aging. Two benchmarks of this...