"This report documents the PASS interviewer survey which was conducted in November 2010. Altogether 253 interviewers who worked as interviewers for PASS wave 4 or 5 participated in a web survey focusing on their personality, attitudes and motivations and on strategies they use on their job. The...

"The aim of the Panel Study 'Labour Market and Social Security' (PASS) is to provide a database which allows analysing the dynamics of welfare benefits receipt after the introduction of the Unemployment Benefits II in Germany in 2005. This entails the take up and ending of benefits receipt as...

Using the FEER approach we investigate the long-run equilibrium paths of the real effective exchange rates (REERs) of countries in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). In an attempt to address econometric estimation uncertainty, we employ both single-country (Johansen and ARDL)...

The effect of 12 different combinations of diffuse–global correlations and tilted surface radiation models on the accuracy of PV output simulation of a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system was studied using statistical methods. A site specific diffuse–global correlation was developed...

Eckart Bomsdorf und Jörg Winkelhausen, Universität zu Köln, verwenden in ihrer Studie die Ergebnisse des Zensus 2011 als Basis der Vorausberechnung der Bevölkerung in Deutschland bis 2060. Ihre Berechnungen zeigen, dass der zukünftige Bevölkerungsrückgang in Deutschland kaum abwendbar...

New opportunities have recently emerged in survey practice, coupled with a need to make changes, and alternative survey data collection modes such as those based on new technologies (for example, the Web and mobile phones) have become a focus of interest. Studies have considered the biases due...

Modern biotechnology needs to be a part of the tools used for effective pov¬erty alleviation in Africa. As GE crops and other products are regulated products, it is imperative to establish regulatory systems that are commen¬surate with the potential risk of the technology. These systems...