2002 dürfte das portugiesische Bruttoinlandsprodukt nur etwa dem Volumen des Jahres 2001 entsprochen haben. Die Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wurde ungünstiger und die Arbeitslosigkeit nahm gegen Jahresende sprunghaft zu (5% im Jahresdurchschnitt). Die Konsumentenpreise lagen um 3,7% über dem...

2002 dürfte das portugiesische Bruttoinlandsprodukt nur etwa dem Volumen des Jahres 2001 entsprochen haben. Die Lage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt wurde ungünstiger und die Arbeitslosigkeit nahm gegen Jahresende sprunghaft zu (5% im Jahresdurchschnitt). Die Konsumentenpreise lagen um 3,7% über dem...

Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...

Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an...

The influence of industrial structure, more specifically of business ownership, is investigated on the level of unemployment in Japan. The question is to what extent business ownership, i.e., entrepreneurship, can reduce the level of unemployment. It will be concluded that Japan is hardly an...

This paper investigates the relation between changes in self-employment and changes in unemployment at the regional level in Spain in the period 1979-2001. We estimate a vec-tor autoregression model as proposed by Audretsch, Carree, van Stel and Thurik (2005) using a data base for Spanish...

In seiner neuesten Konjunkturprognose geht das ifo Institut davon aus, dass die konjunkturelle Lage in Deutschland nach wie vor von großer Labilität geprägt und die Erholung nicht gefestigt ist. Trotz alledem deuten die bisher vorliegenden Indikatoren darauf hin, dass sich die begonnene...