New Zealand's unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the discussion of New Zealand's economic relations with its trading partners is the positive contribution...

This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...

The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country's extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus frequently been regarded as a model for other countries to emulate. However, unemployment grew enormously in Sweden when the...

The 'Swedish model' of active labour market programmes is investigated in relation to some crucial institutional features with two aims: examining how successful it has been in the context of the high unemployment atypically experienced by Sweden in the 1990s and trying to derive some general...

Schulinspektionen haben im Bildungssystem die Aufgabe, die Qualität von Schule zu überprüfen und Impulse für Schulentwicklung anzustoßen. Es gibt jedoch keinen Konsens darüber, was man unter Qualität versteht. Im Rahmen des Beitrags wird untersucht, inwiefern Schulinspektionen in ihren...

This literature review starts with a general discussion of young people and their various activities with special emphasis on youth unemployment and the outcome of alternative ways of measuring the prevalence of unemployment among young people. Thereafter the focus turns to measures targeted at...

Für den Bereich des Winterberges bei Schierke (Harz) existieren Planungen eines Wander- und Skigebietes inkl. Seilbahn. Im Rahmen der Vorbereitung des Raumordnungsverfahrens wurde ein Fachgutachten in Auftrag gegeben, da zwei bereits vorliegende Gutachten zu widersprechenden Bewertungen und...

This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...