This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus fünf voneinander unabhängigen Papieren, die zwei größeren Forschungsfelder abdecken: die Ökonomie des Alterns und die Innovationsökonomik. Die ersten drei Kapitel betrachten den Einfluss der Interaktion zwischen Generationen auf die Eltern...

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

How do technology, public works projects, mental health, race, gender, mobility, retirement benefits, and macroeconomic policies affect worker well-being? This volume contains fourteen original chapters utilizing the latest econometric techniques to answer this question. The findings include the...