Abstract Beschäftigte in Tätigkeiten, für die keine Berufsausbildung erforderlich ist (einfache Arbeit), gelten schon seit längerem als problematische Personengruppe des Arbeitsmarkts. Anhand der Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels setzt sich dieser Beitrag mit der Entwicklung der einfachen Arbeit...

Zusammenfassung In dem Beitrag wird das in Deutschland beobachtbare Phänomen der im Vergleich zur Realvermögensbildung überproportionalen Geldvermögensbildung untersucht. Grundlage ist die Finanzierungsrechnung der Deutschen Bundesbank, die eine sektorale Analyse des...

Abstract The past Greek crisis experience is more or less terra incognita. In all historical empirical studies Greece is systematically neglected or included only sporadically in their cross-country samples. In the national literature too there is little on this topic. In this paper we use the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to aim at taking a closer look at the decline in the inequality of the distribution of four health variables, infant and child mortality, child stunting and underweight, that took place in various Southeast Asian countries during the past 25 years. More...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there is a firm-level corporate governance (CG) convergence in two emerging economies, namely Malaysia and Thailand in post-Asian financial crisis periods, and how the level of convergence is moderated by different firm-specific...

This research investigates cross‐cultural business networks between Australian engineering consultants and their Thai customers. A qualitative research study was conducted into business relationships, gathering data on different aspects of actors' perceptions of their relationships. The...

The aim of this study is to highlight developments and opportunities in the retail and distribution sectors of China. In particular, we focus on the entry of international retailers into this rapidly growing market and classify various forms of retailing in China. The emerging Southeast Asian...

Purpose – The paper aims to further extend our understanding by assessing the extent to which two prominent cultural values in East Asia i.e. face saving and group orientation drive consumers’ perceptions of luxury goods across four East Asian markets. Design/methodology/approach – A...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the revenue efficiency of Islamic banks in the Southeast Asian countries. Specifically, the empirical analysis comprises Islamic banks operating in Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. This paper also seeks to investigate the potential internal...