Cocoa is a cash crop which is predominantly cultivated in smallholder agroforestry systems. On a global scale, the expansion of cocoa cultivation area has dominantly taken place in areas of prior primary forests, thereby contributing substantially to the loss of remaining rainforests. Tropical...

In der Dissertation werden die Gesetze zur Reform des Arbeitsmarktes in Deutschland, besser bekannt als Hartz-Reformen, untersucht. Zunächst wird ein Überblick über die wichtigsten Änderungen aus den vier Reform-Paketen gegeben sowie die Effekte, welche man sich davon versprach. Des Weiteren...

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

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...

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...

In 2005, a large-scale direct job creation programme – the so-called One-Euro-Jobs – was introduced in Germany. One-Euro-Jobs are mainly temporary, part-time non-profit-sector jobs, which have to be additional and of public interest. Their central goal is to improve the employability and in...