Im pazifischen Becken gab es bereits in der Vergangenheit zahlreiche Initiativen zur Institutionalisierung der natürlich gewachsenen Interdependenzen und eine Reihe von Gründungen multilateraler Organisationen und Institutionen. Die APEC (Asiatic Pacific Economic Cooperation), zu deren...

Die "Asiatic Pacific Economic Cooperation" (APEC) hält vom 20. bis 23. November 1996 ihre nun schon achte Ministerkonferenz in Manila ab. Im unmittelbaren Anschluß (25.11.1996) findet das vierte informelle Treffen der Regierungschefs der Mitgliedsländer der APEC statt. Dieser Zusammenschluß...

"This paper summarises, explains and evaluates the most important findings on the scale and causes of structural unemployment in Europe against the background of a standardised theoretical frame of reference. In literature, structural unemployment is usually interpreted as the unemployment that...

"The immigration of workers will remain a topic in future. That is why it makes sense to take a look at the immigration regulations of countries with high immigration figures. Switzerland was selected in addition to the classical immigration countries of Australia, Canada and the USA. The...

"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...