Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über den Themenkomplex "Investitionen" aus gesellschaftswissenschaftlicher Sicht. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der staatlichen Investitionspolitik: Der Staat kann selbst als Investor auftreten. Zudem kann der Staat versuchen,...

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...

This chapter seeks to assess the main thrusts of Polish economic policy from 2007 to 2015, a period when the governing coalition of the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL) was in power, with a focus on measures designed to boost growth and streamline the country’s public...

The article discusses possible implications of European Monetary Union (EMU) on member states' budget policies. It predicts that the non-bail-out clause will not work.

The proposal involves the establishment of 'welfare accounts' for every person in a country. There are to be four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...

The traditional assumption of constant factor shares (Bowley’s Law) may be misleading, for factor shares do vary in both the short run and the long run. The present chapter looks at short-run factor share movements, asking how they relate to the business cycle. Theoretical arguments differ...