"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...

"Eine stärkere Flexibilität der Arbeitszeitgestaltung - sowohl hinsichtlich der Länge als auch der Lage der Arbeitszeit auf den verschiedenen Ebenen (Tag, Woche, Jahr, Leben) - kann dazu beitragen, Probleme des Arbeitsmarktes zu lösen oder zu mildern und die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...

"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...

"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...

In allen OECD-Ländern sind die Geburtenraten in den letzten vierzig Jahren erheblich gesunken. Trotz dieses gemeinsamen Trends kann aber sowohl in der zeitlichen Entwicklung als auch im aktuellen Stand des Geburtenverhaltens eine erhebliche Heterogenität beobachtet werden. Deutschland, Spanien...

"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...