Bildungspolitische Fragen haben in den letzten Jahren eine verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit erfahren. Auch der beruflichen und hier insbesondere der betrieblichen Weiterbildung wird vor dem Hintergrund des Paradigmas des „lebenslangen Lernens“ eine zunehmende Bedeutung eingeräumt. In der...

This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective. Our result is based on an interdependence between detection probabilities where detection of an...

"The Tragedy of the Commons can be likened to the now popular term 'Sustainable Development', as both of them refer to the need to appropriately and cooperatively manage shared resources, in order to maintain a balance between different generations of people inhabiting a particular niche within...

The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...

This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...

This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...

Tyrimo tikslas: įvertinti atlyginimų "vokelyje" praktikos paplitimo mastus Lietuvoje. Respondentams buvo pateikti klausimai, ar jie gauna neapmokestinamų pajamų bei klausta, kokią dalį pajamų procentais sudaro tokios neapmokestinamos pajamos. Socialinės demografinės charakteristikos:...

The objective of the study is to identify how micro-enterprises can be integrated into local value chains by using the so-called "value chain approach". The "value chain approach" has become a relatively popular approach among donor agencies and NGOs engaged in Private Sector Development in...