In 2005, a large-scale direct job creation programme – the so-called One-Euro-Jobs – was introduced in Germany. One-Euro-Jobs are mainly temporary, part-time non-profit-sector jobs, which have to be additional and of public interest. Their central goal is to improve the employability and in...

The German government introduced in 2005 a fundamental labor market reform, which emphasizes the activation of unemployed welfare recipients. A variety of active labor market policies (ALMPs) should help the unemployed find a job or increase their employability. One important activation program...

El objetivo de este documento es investigar los efectos causales a largo plazo de la concesión de una beca del Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC, por sus siglas en inglés) en la productividad de los investigadores, en la excelencia de su trabajo y en su capacidad para obtener nuevas becas...

Presented at the 33rd AIB-UK Conference 'International Business in the Age of Anxiety', University of Manchester, 7-8 April 2006.

The paper seeks to quantify the effects of macro development and fiscal indicators on the agriculturalproducer support in the OECD countries during the period 1986-2009. The study is complementaryto the body of microeconomic research that highlights the importance of support toagriculture...

Kliauga, de Gorter, and Just (2008) and de Gorter, Drabik, and Just (2010) argue that the United States and the European Union establish the world ethanol and biodiesel prices, respectively. We test these theories using a cointegration analysis and the Vector Error Correction (VEC) model. Weekly...

Since 2004 there has been a sharp decrease in border protection for the EU rice industry. Because the EU grants trade preferences to a considerable number of rice exporting developing countries, the reform implied preference erosion as well. By addressing the impact of preference erosion on...

This paper employs the dual approach to trace the impact of public policy instruments upon the operational and financial performance of U.S. dairy cooperatives. A restricted profit function is applied to the Operations and Finance Statements for years 1980-1988 of thirty major dairy...

Das Papier untersucht die Rolle von Frühindikatoren bei der Erstellung von Konjunkturprognosen. Gegenstand der Analyse sind die Fragen: Welche Kriterien sollten Frühindikatoren generell erfüllen bzw. was sollten Frühindikatoren leisten? Inwieweit erfüllen die gängigen Indikatoren diese...

Previous quantitative assessments of likely impacts of recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy (in particular the Agenda 2000) differ across empirical studies. Differences are mainly due to the ways the policy instruments are taken into account (explicit modeling or implicit modeling...