Compares research and teaching of today's business economics with its predecessor disciplines before 1890. Describes … attempts to organize commercial high schools from 1890 – business economics has its roots in these institutions. Discusses the … reasons for the separation of business economics, as a discipline, from political economy. Paramount among these was a quarrel …

Recent labor market reforms in Germany aim, among other things, at reducing unemployment by restricting passive … unemployment measures, emphasizing local labor market policies and re-structuring public employment services. This paper uses … contribute to the shortening of unemployment duration. For this purpose, we estimate a semi-parametric duration model with three …