Arbeit -- und nicht in erster Linie Schulbesuch und Spiel -- prägt den Alltag vieler Millionen Kinder in Entwicklungsländern. Ungeachtet ihrer vielfältigen Formen und komplexen Ursachen wird Kinderarbeit in der öffentlichen Diskussion und in der Politikpraxis der OECD-Länder meist als...

Labour market policy, subjective well-being, reemployment stability, Europe, unemployment benefits, unemployment, social inclusion, job quality, active labour market policy, one-euro-jobs, treatment effects, duration analysis, multi-level analysis, ALMP. - This dissertation analyses the effects...

This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the construction industry. The analyses aim to contribute to the microeconomic theory, proving three different concepts of externally caused variations, affecting both, the labour market...