Master of Arts

This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...

This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...

Die Armutsforschung in der Bundesrepublik hat sich in den letzten Jahren etabliert und kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt. Dennoch lassen sich zwei Lücken in der empirischen Erforschung von Armut benennen. Da gibt es die mangelnde Berücksichtigung der Wohnkosten bei der Messung relativer...