Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

This paper examines the long-run effects of forced migration on economic development in the origin economy, using Czechoslovakia's expulsion of 3 million Germans after WWII. For identification, I use the discontinuity in ethnic composition at the border of the "Sudetenland" region where Germans...

Seit einigen Jahren befindet sich die Freie Wohlfahrtspflege in einem grundlegenden Transformationsprozeß. Dessen politische Zielsetzung besteht vor allem darin, die bisherigen Aufwendungen für den sozialen Dienstleistungsbereich zu begrenzen bzw. zu senken - das erscheint beschlossen und im...