Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

Seit Beginn der siebziger Jahre gibt es in Deutschland, wie in den meisten anderen OECD-Staaten eine hohe Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Arbeitsmarktpolitik, den verschiedenen Formen der Bekämpfung von Arbeitslosigkeit, mit dem Problem der Ungleichheit bei Löhnen...

Innovations are a key factor to ensure the competitiveness of establishments as well as to enhance the growth and wealth of nations. But more than any other economic activity, decisions about innovations are plagued by failures of the market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been...

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....