Ziel dieser Studie ist es, das Vertrauenskapital einer Volkswirtschaft im europäischen Vergleich im Rahmen einer Längsschnittanalyse von 2000 bis 2014 zu untersuchen. Der Vertrauensindex umfasst zwanzig Länder und zeigt die Entwicklung in den Teilindizes Vertrauen in das politische System,...

The Lisbon summit of the European Council in March 2000 declared the number ofpeople living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union to beunacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning with the setting oftargets for particular indicators. The targets suggested...

Poverty, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Guatemala. This paper explores the causes of deforestation and biodiversity loss in Guatemala and is organized into 4 parts. First, an overview about deforestation in Guatemala from 1950-2000 is provided, and the relationship between deforestation...

In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...