Roman Michalczyk imparts new knowledge on the general discussion on regulation in Europe and the USA. He describes the historical situation which was the basis for the development of the regulation as well as the political, economic and legal factors which interacted to enable Europe to look...

The paper analyses the infrastructure provision in East Germany mainly by an examination of existing literature. At the time of German unification 1990, infrastructure in East Germany was in a very bad condition. After more than ten years of rebuilding, most of the remaining need for...

"Whilst in applied empirical research, training in general human capital is mainly explained by structural characteristics of firms, this paper introduces business expectations as an additional explanatory factor. Business expectations are strictly time-variate and firm-specific and reflect both...

"This paper adopts an economic perspective for an investigation of the correlation between cost-benefit aspects and company decisions regarding training. A differentiation is drawn between the basic decision about whether a company should provide its own training and the stipulation of the...

"Although participation in continuing vocational training is often found to be associated with considerable individual benefits, a puzzlingly large number of people still do not take part in training. In order to solve the puzzle we distinguish between temporary and chronic non-participants....

Organisationen des Fairen Handels verfolgen das Ziel benachteiligten Produzenten in Entwicklungsländern faire Preise für deren Erzeugnisse zu zahlen. Dennoch ist es aus makro- und mikroökonomischer Sicht fraglich, ob die Zahlung eines Preisaufschlags wirklich effektiv für die betroffenen...

"Zur Bewertung des Ressourceneinsatzes der Bundesagentur für Arbeit wird eine fiskalische Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse (KNA) auf Basis der Mikro- und Makroanalyse durchgeführt. Bei der Berechnung der Ertragseffekte werden direkte und indirekte Maßnahmeneffekte einbezogen. Wirkungen auf das...