Die sich häufenden Bilanzskandale, Korruptionsaffären und hohen Abfindungszahlungen für ausscheidende Top-Manager in den vergangenen Jahren haben auch die jeweils involvierten Beratungsgesellschaften mit ins Zwielicht gezogen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht der folgende Beitrag, welche...

This paper examines efforts to make work pay, concentrating on U.S. American and German policies and experiments. We are specifically interested in fleshing out the relevance of U.S. American models for a German context as well as the special characteristics of the German situation which do not...

The majority of the literature related to Amartya Sen´s Capability Approach (CA) has been devoted to questions of development and developing countries. In this paper, however, with a theoretical concept and first empirical results at hand, we shed some light on Sen´s argument that the CA is...

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the German government. For the first time, this paper provides information on the use of the Capability Approach in this reporting process to international readers. We show the...