Neue Zahlen, neue Fakten als der Westen die Zahlung der Reparationen einstellte, zu denen er 1945 in Potsdam verpflichtet worden war, blutete der Osten für ihn mit. Bis 1961 nutzte man das Arbeitskräftereservoir der DDR, nach dem Mauerbau musste man sich "Gastarbeiter" aus Südeuropa holen....

A well known and established model in communication policy in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors in a society who are able to affect the behavior of other members called followers. Hence, opinion leaders might have a considerable impact on the...

A well-known model in sociology and marketing is that of opinion leadership. Opinion leaders are actors who are able to affect the behavior of their followers. Hence, opinion leaders have some power over their followers, and they can exercise this power by influencing their followers choice of...

The paper investigates how the income distribution affects the subjective well-being of society. Starting from the concept of a social welfare function defined on income distributions it assesses the preference for equality in European countries. It examines how mean income and the distribution...

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary...