Zutreffende Prognosen über die Entwicklung von Personen zu machen, gehörte schon immer zu den größten Herausforderungen in der Diagnostik. Unternehmen sind in hohem Maße an solchen Voraussagen interessiert, denn in Zeiten globalen Wettbewerbs gewinnen die "Human Resources" rasant an...

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of training are analyzed, explicitly accounting for the...

This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus among academics that the share of immigrants in the workforce has little or no effect on the pay rates of the indigenous population. But the studies in the literature have...