Die aktuelle Fluchtmigration kann nur durch engere internationale Kooperation auf dem Gebiet der Asylpolitik effizient bewältigt werden. Aus ökonomischer Perspektive wäre es sinnvoll, die ankommenden Flüchtlinge nach einem Verteilungsschlüssel auf alle EU-Länder zu verteilen. Dieser...

Das Ruhrgebiet ist eine regionalpolitische Dauerbaustelle. Die Transformation der einstigenBergbau- und Industrieregion hin zu Hochschulbau und Dienstleistungen konnte nichtverhindern, dass die Arbeitslosenzahlen deutlich über dem Landes- und Bundesdurchschnittliegen. Um die Regionalentwicklung...

This paper revisits the standard explanations of the violent Chilean protests of late 2019, and in particular their exclusive focus on the role of inequality, which in fact had been falling prior to the emergence of unrest. Instead, we suggest that blame may lie in a crisis of trust in...

Förderbanken sind in guten und in schlechten Zeiten nützlich. Sie bringen strukturelle Veränderungen in Volkswirtschaften voran und helfen dabei, langfristige Herausforderungen anzugehen. Sie ergänzen Finanzsysteme, unterstützen die Funktionsfähigkeit von Banken- und Finanzmärkten und...

This article aims to analyze the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the United States, in the 1960s and 2010, from the surplus approach. The objective is to compare this relationship in these two decades, which end with low unemployment rates, to understand the scenario of the...

I examine the association between college education and left-leaning views in Bolivia using novel survey data. My findings suggest that college education is associated with left-leaning social preferences (college-educated individuals favor social equality and a tax system in which not everybody...

Purpose: This paper investigates the factors responsible for the emergence of different arrangements of state-society relations. Being concerned with the relations related to the industrial sector, this study focuses more on state-business-labor relations (SBLRs), especially on power dynamics...

This paper questions the effect of democracy on regulatory reforms by mainly checking whether the observed differences between the transition economies and the rest of the economies in terms of engaged reforms are related to the level of democracy. Our results, based primarily on the Oaxaca -...

Purpose: This study aimed to better define the boundary conditions of voluntary business engagement for social and economic transformation. Approach: Case study of the Consultative Business Movement (CBM) in South Africa's democratic transition through historical narrative and analysis, applying...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine presents many challenges to the international order. To understand what is at stake, we argue that the nature of the political regime matters to understand this conflict. We propose a classification of three different types of political regimes (empires, nation...