Zusammenfassung: Seit dem Jahr 2015 ist Europa mit einer großen Flüchtlingswelle aus dem Nahen Osten und Nordafrika konfrontiert. Es wird argumentiert, dass die Geldpolitik der großen Industrieländer indirekt eine wichtige Bestimmungsgröße dieser Flüchtlingswelle ist. Ab der...

Abstract This paper attempts to provide an explanation to the debate whether infrastructure development is more effective than direct cash transfer to reduce wage disparity between skilled and unskilled workers. We use a simple general equilibrium structure to argue that in presence of symmetric...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the effect of high‐level human capital investment, using tertiary education as the proxy, on the urban‐rural income gap in China. Design/methodology/approach – Using a panel dataset covering 28 provinces of China over the period...

Abstract This paper presents a model that can account for the gender specialization of skill acquisition in the presence of competitive matching. In particular we show that when the comparative advantage in nonmarket domestic activities belongs to women, an incentive arises for them to...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce social enterprise self-employment programs (SEPs) as a two-dimensional human capital investment strategy that can potentially advance economic development. Design/methodology/approach SEPs are frequently utilized as a tool for increasing economic...

Purpose – The international awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues and the socio‐political context of emerging countries are increasing the pressure on businesses, including multinational corporations, to take another look at their societal role. In a context of state...

This article describes how in volunteer cloud computing systems, some resources are volunteered by the hosts. These systems became more powerful and attractive because they provide a highest power computing. However, to satisfy the user requirements and the system performance in this kind of the...