The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...

Auch Tobias Seidel, CES, folgt dieser Argumentationslinie im Rahmen der klassischen Handelstheorie und eines Zwei-Güter-Zwei-Länder-Ansatzes - allerdings unter der Annahme rigider Löhne - und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Verteidigung des hohen Lohnniveaus gegen die Marktkräfte zwar zu...

Untersuchungen des ifo Instituts zum Reformprozeß in Kasachstan sowie Vergleiche mit anderen NUS kommen zu dem Ergebnis, daß sich die Transformationsländer der ehemaligen UdSSR auch durch zu einseitig auf die Gesamtwirtschaft ausgerichtete Reformmaßnahmen heute in einer äußerst kritischen...

The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...

This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....

We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...