"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...

"Other countries have already privatised their job placement systems to a greater extent than Germany has. This concerns such different welfare state regimes as Australia and Great Britain on the one hand and the Netherlands - and more recently also Belgium and Denmark - on the other hand....

"This article examines the consequences of contracting-out on the basis of the four criteria of efficiency, economy, effectiveness and equality (3 or 4 e's concept), which are borrowed from New Public Management research. The paper is based on 76 expert interviews and informative discussions...

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...