"Seit Ende der 1990er Jahre steht die Weiterentwicklung von Fürsorgesystemen als letztem Netz nationaler Sicherungssysteme zu einer 'aktivierenden' Grundsicherung auf der Reformagenda in vielen Ländern. Die gemeinsame Zielsetzung von Hilfereformen ist es, die soziale Treffsicherheit von...

"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...

"Using German and British panel data, we analyse the impact of transitions from unemployment to full-time employment on life satisfaction, with special focus on the influence of job quality. On average there are pronounced positive effects of a new job in both countries, even after controlling...

In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm-level panel data for U.K. manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward, and forward linkages; distinguish spillovers from export-oriented vs...