"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

"This paper shows that a fusion of qualitative and quantitative methods in social research must not only consist of counting words in qualitative documents, exemplifying statistics by case studies, generating hypotheses by qualitative exploration studies or the like. Beyond that, typological...

"This paper shows that a fusion of qualitative and quantitative methods in social research must not only consist of counting words in qualitative documents, exemplifying statistics by case studies, generating hypotheses by qualitative exploration studies or the like. Beyond that, typological...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

This series, edited by the Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics, publishes those papers which are given at the seminars in Ottobeuren. The purpose of these seminars is to present new theoretical approaches as well as new empirical findings to a group of experts and to discuss the political-economic...

Das Jahr 2001 hat sich rückblickend als »Jahr der enttäuschten Konjunkturhoffnungen« herausgestellt; auch das ifo Institut musste seine Deutschlandprognose im Jahresverlauf mehrfach »nach unten« korrigieren. Die Fehleinschätzung der BIP-Wachstumsrate geht auf zwei Ursachen zurück: Einmal...

When the Austrian Institute of Economic Research WIFO was re-established after 1945, its scientific profile was chiefly defined by Hans Seidel, who recently celebrated his 80th birthday. He attained his vision of what WIFO should be and become by his careful attention to the editorial work for...

"Die hier vorgestellten Analyseergebnisse geben Hilfen für die politische Wertung der bisherigen Strukturpolitik und Hinweise für weitere Defizite im Bereich der regionalen Arbeitsmarktpolitik. Der Entwicklungsvergleich orientiert sich ausschließlich an zentralen Arbeitsmarktindikatoren. Ein...

"This paper discusses methodological problems of standard errors and treatment effects. First, heteroskedasticity- and cluster-robust estimates are considered as well as problems with Bernoulli distributed regressors, outliers and partially identified parameters. Second, procedures to determine...