A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

Educational expenditure statistics being a very complex subject the short user guide to educational expenditure statistics has been created to satisfy the growing demand on qualified informations concerning educational expenditure statistics. [...] The short user guide is limited to formal...

"Intercultural Education" is a pedagogic approach aimed at fomenting a tolerant and sensitive attitude to ethnic, cultural and religious differences between individuals. This study examines how Intercultural Education is provided for in the classrooms of selected EU countries, including France,...

Ziele dieser Studie sind zum einen die Bereitstellung eines vergleichenden Überblicks über Entwicklung, Zielsetzungen und Organisationnationaler Lernstandserhebungen in den Ländern des Eurydice-Netzes und zum anderen das Verständnis der Verwendung der Ergebnisse nationaler...

The transition from school to work is a crucial phase in the lives of young people that has lasting effects on their entire life courses. In recent years, labour market uncertainty and comparatively high unemployment rates have been major challenges for young people leaving the educational...