This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

This volume was prepared by Constantin Mang while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes a short introduction and four self-contained chapters that focus on ICT...

Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

Arbeitslosigkeit stellt in Deutschland seit Mitte der 70er Jahre ein dauerhaftes wirtschafts- und gesellschaftspolitisches Problem dar. Von der zunehmenden Arbeitslosigkeit sind gering qualifizierte Personen besonders betroffen. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, die Relevanz und das Gewicht...

Auch 20 Jahre nach dem Fall der Mauer ist das Phänomen der Ost-West-Migration innerhalb Deutschlands nach wie vor von großer Bedeutung. Das Ausmaß sowie die Selektivität dieser Wanderungsbewegungen erreichte dabei ungeahnte Dimensionen. Vor diesem Hintergrund analysiert und beantwortet die...