Die Beteiligung ostdeutscher Unternehmen an Inlandsmessen wurde erstmals im Herbst 1990 gefördert. In der Folgezeit wurde die Förderung mehrfach verlängert und modifiziert, nicht zuletzt weil sich das gesamtwirtschaftliche Wachstum in den neuen Bundesländern verlangsamte. Das ifo Institut...

Politisch mag es nicht korrekt sein, nach der Zukunft des Euro zu fragen. Wissenschaftlich ist diese Frage nach Ansicht von Stefan Homburg, Universität Hannover, aber berechtigt, weil Zweifel am Bestand der Eurozone zunehmen und die aktuelle Entwicklung dunkle Reminiszenzen an das Vorfeld...

Was the 18th century a time period of gradual market integration? Or did the wars, famines, and criminality drive central European markets away from each other? We perform cointegration tests between four German and three Polish cities for rye markets in the 18th century, plus selected tests...

In dem Beitrag wird das Publikations- und Zitationsverhalten von Wirtschaftsgeographen und Regionalökonomen verglichen. Basierend auf einem einzigartigen Datensatz und bewusst beschränkt auf Autoren aus dem deutschsprachigen Bereich, belegt die empirische Analyse mehr Parallelen zwischen...

"Based on the two IAB establishment surveys - the IAB Establishment Panel and the IAB Job Vacancy Survey - this report sheds light on the German labour market from the firms' perspective and gives information about the labour demand and resulting skills shortages for the years 2006 to 2012. With...

"The aim of this study is to analyze impacts of the introduction of the minimum wage in the German construction sector on wages and employment using micro data. The introduction of the minimum wage in 1997, which is binding for all blue-collar workers, is related to the Worker Posting Law....

"Based on the Linked-Employer-Employee data from the IAB (LIAB) we show how the horizontal occupational segregation of men and women in German establishments developed between 1996 and 2005. For this purpose we apply the dissimilarity index and the standardized dissimilarity index at the...

"'Marginal employment', i. e. employment with low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been gaining importance in the German economy over the past decade. Using a large newly available panel data set from the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency and...

"Job creation schemes have been one of the most important programmes of active labour market policy in Germany throughout the 1990s and into the first decade of the new century. A number of studies have analysed the effects of job creation schemes in Germany, presenting an overall disappointing...

"This study uses recent data taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002-2006) to evaluate the extent of and heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in eastern and western Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find significantly different wage patterns in...