Der Trend, wieder in der Stadt zu wohnen, birgt Chancen und Risiken für die Städte. Der Rückzug in die Stadt muss stadtverträglich gestaltet werden, bedarf einer regionalplanerischen Einbettung und einer abgestimmten Unterstützung aller Politikebenen. Das Positionspapier der drei...

Abgesehen von den unterschiedlichen Gegebenheiten in den kleinen und mittleren Städten stellt die Stabilisierung der Stadtzentren eine große Herausforderung dar. In beiden Ländern sind die Stadtzentren durch kommerzielle Veränderungen, einen Rückgang des Dienstleistungsangebots und einen...

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...

Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

This study of initial public offerings (IPOs) carried out on the Berlin and London stock exchanges between 1900 and 1913 casts doubt on the received law and finance wisdom that legally mandated investor protection is pivotal to the development of capital markets. IPOs that resulted in official...

We document significant and robust empirical relationships in cross-country panel data between government size or social expenditure on the one hand, and trade and financial development indicators on the other. Across countries, deeper economic integration is associated with more intense...

The fallout from the global economic downturn of 2008-09 is a continuing source of stress on families and a constraint on government policies. How can social policies contribute to a quick and equitable recovery from the crisis and how can they best respond to the difficulties that households...

Although many have expressed concern over whether generous welfare policies discourage the employment of single mothers, scholars have rarely exploited cross-national variability in the generosity of social policies to assess this question. This is the case even though much previous scholarship...

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over the 1990s. The objective is to uncover the relative role of income transfers from the state in...