This study focuses on the influence of heavy job demands on retirement, using the available SHARE waves. Heavy job demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self-selection of workers into jobs. The main findings...

This study focuses on the influence of heavy job demands on retirement, using the available SHARE waves. Heavy job demands may have a direct and health mediated effect on individual retirement. An econometric challenge is the dynamic self-selection of workers into jobs. The main findings...

This paper explores the relationship between growth and unemployment. Knowledge formation is the source of growth, which includes the two dimensions technologies and skills. Both are connected through a technology-skill complementarity which may have limiting effects on the reallocation of labor...

Die Universität Rostock stellt einen wichtigen Wirtschaftsfaktor für die Region dar. Man muß zwischen kurz- bis mittelfristigen Wirkungen und langfristigen Wirkungen unterscheiden. Zu ersteren zählen die Einkommens- und Beschäftigungseffekte, die sich konjunkturell auswirken, zu letzteren...

The paper deals with the regional economic impact of the University of Rostock. There are short-term and long-term economic effects to be considered. The former are mainly on income and employment. The university generates ca. 422 million DM income in the region and creates about 6500 Jobs; one...