Gegenstand der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist eine Zwischenbewertung der Maßnahmen, die von den Europäischen Strukturfonds in der ersten Hälfte der GFK-Programmperiode von 1994 bis 1996 in den neuen Bundesländern gefördert worden sind. Zum ersten Untersuchungsteil gehören eine Analyse der...

The authors' main objective in this project was to study the options available to East Germany as it faces into the need to design policies that will take it from the immediate post-transition situation towards the EU average standard of living. After the initial transition, East Germany had a...

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...