"PREFACE Comparing Environmental Policies in 16 Countries Draft: May 13, 2013 Teaching at Nanjing University in China as a Fulbright professor shaped this book into its final form. I spent the Spring semester of 2009 there at the School of the Environment. My manuscript was half done, and I used...

This essay first sketches some descriptive material, setting the stage and demonstrating the highly differentiated statistical landscape of various measures for youth unemployment in Europe compared to India and in particular to Germany. Second, it provides a simple but powerful model for the...