Seit einigen Jahren sind am Arbeitsmarkt für JournalistInnen Umwälzungen im Gange. Inwieweit dies Auswirkungen auf den quantitativen Bedarf an JournalistInnen, auf deren Tätigkeitsfelder und Qualifikationsbedarf sowie auf deren Arbeitsmarktchancen und Arbeitsmarktperspektiven hat, ist...

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held by the United Nations in 2003 to draft a programmatic declaration for the information age. The involvement of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the drafting process was innovative and led to WSIS becoming an especially instructive...

Die New Economy ist durch die Konvergenz zuvor getrennter Bereiche (Telekommunikation, Medien, Informationstechnik, Internet) gekennzeichnet, die gegenwärtig unterschiedlichen regulatorischen Rahmenbedingungen unterworfen sind. Ist dieser• heterogene Ordnungsrahmen noch geeignet, um den...

This paper analyzes some of the elements of the new economy. What is really new is first of all the technological innovation. In economic terms what is new is a new product. The new IT product brought about by the new technology means two different things: a new device to handle data and to...

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical 'Tullock Challenges'. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

In recent years, institutional and evolutionary economists have become increasingly aware that ideas play an important role in economic development. In the current literature, the problem is usually elaborated upon in purely theoretical terms. In the present paper it is argued that ideas are...

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

At the turn of the 18th century Saint-Simon und his disciples, the Saint-Simonists, developed ideas about centrally planned and directed humane societies. These ideas are still influential and are proposed by some as guiding principles for the development of an institutional structure for a...

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade