"The years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe brought with them the unprecedented - in these societies - phenomenon of restructuring with dismissals and growing unemployment. Moreover with the emergence and development of the private sector, new enterprises started to leave former...

Mit der Vollendung des EG-Binnenmarktes sind auch der freie Dienstleistungsverkehr und die Niederlassungsfreiheit verbunden. Das ifo Institut hat die Märkte für Designerleistungen in den Benelux-Staaten, Großbritannien, Italien und Spanien untersucht, um den überwiegend kleinbetrieblich...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"We study the returns on education in Europe in a comparative perspective. We extend the model of de la Fuente [(2003). Human Capital in a Global and Knowledgebased Economy. part II: Assessment at the EU Country Level. Report for the European Commission], by estimating the values of the relevant...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...

Eine umfassende Anwendung des Subsidiaritätsprinzips in der EG ist so lange nicht möglich, wie die in Frage kommenden Regionen nicht in allen Mitgliedstaaten institutionell unabhängig sind. Vor einer weiteren Aufstockung der Finanzmittel sollten in der EG daher politische Strukturen mit...

In ökonomisch fortgeschrittenen Ländern entfällt der überwiegende Teil des Personenverkehrs auf die Pkw-Nutzung. Doch die mit dem Pkw produzierten Verkehrsleistungen werden von den nationalen Statistikämtern mit keiner einheitlichen und periodisch wiederholten Stichprobe erhoben, so daß...