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...

"This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which nativeborn women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service...

"The Swiss mass apprenticeship system is market based. The share of training firms as a percentage of all firms is therefore an indicator which receives much public attention. The share of training firms declined markedly from 1985 to 2001, dropping from 24.7 to 17.6%. This has often been...

"This paper uses regional variation in labor markets, the industry structure and the education system to explain the training decisions of firms. Using a representative firmlevel data set, the results show that firms are less likely to provide training if the number of competing firms situated...

1997 gingen die konjunkturellen Uhren - wie schon seit 1994 - weiter nach. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt nahm bei annähernd stagnierender Inlandsnachfrage um etwa 0,5% zu. Die Arbeitslosenquote stieg auf 5,3%. 1998 gewinnt die Erholung allmählich an Breite, das reale BIP dürfte um ca. 1,5%...