Identifies issues relating to violence and stress in the media and performing arts. Covers a range of jobs including acting, dancing, musical performance, media work and front-line journalism.

Innovation clusters continue to be an important focus of economic development policies in many nations. Leading innovation clusters demonstrate that regional concentration strengthens the innovative capability and can lead to successful competitiveness on a global level, as demonstrated by...

The approach of the PUCL to civil liberties issues underlines a crucial understanding: an understanding which has as its base the recognition of the fundamental truth that civil liberties is not a matter of theory alone, but can be meaningfully addressed only as a practical issue. Indeed the...

The purpose of this study was to provide an analysis of the current state of women journalists within the sports departments at newspapers across the United States. This investigation involved a determination of their demographic make-up, job status within the sports department, rationale for...

In economics there is presently an almost revolutionary development. The direct measurement of subjective welfare challenges traditional economics, inspires it, and opens new avenues for scientific research. The approaches and possibilities of an economic analysis of happiness are shown and...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

Ungarn möchte bis zum Jahr 2000 Mitglied der Europäischen Union sein. Dabei hofft man, Vorteile aus einer intensiven Arbeitsteilung mit der nahegelegenen EU und ihrem bedeutenden Markt zu ziehen (billige Importgüter, Effizienzsteigerung der Unternehmen, mehr Innovationstätigkeit,...