In a study about so-called reproductive tourists the anthropologist Marcia Inhorn shows that many of the infertile couples going abroad for medical treatment do not regard themselves as tourists but instead as patients. They even feel offended by being called tourists because tourism is...

This paper examines variation in old-age income inequality between industrialized nations with modern welfare systems. The analysis of income inequality across countries with different retirement income systems provides a perspective on public pension policy choices and designs and their...

Die moderne Biotechnologie ist eine wissensintensive Querschnitts technologie und hat große Wachstumspotentiale. Derzeit weist die Anwendung der Biotechnologie in der Pharmazeutischen Industrie und der Medizin (rote Biotechnologie) weltweit die größte Wachstumsdynamik auf. Deutschland ist...

Using an innovative dataset for ICT use for five countries in Europe,we examine the impact and association of ICT on socio-economic exclusion.Using OLS regression we find significant wage premiums for PC and internet usage at the workplace.Following Dinardo/Fortin/Lemieux (1997),we examine the...

Das Thema dieser Dissertation ist die Frage, wie kulturelle Unterschiede zwischen deutschen und israelischen Personalmanagement-Stilen und Arbeitsnormen zu Problemen in der täglichen Arbeit führen können und wie man diese Probleme vermeiden bzw. mit ihnen besser umgehen kann. Der zentrale...

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic's hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel,...

Hamas's attack on Israel and the subsequent military response, the number of antisemitic incidents in Germany has risen significantly - including at universities, according to many reports. The media report on anti-Israeli sentiments, and Jewish students are threatened and attacked. Funded by...

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...