Der deutsche Review-Prozess zur globalen Gesundheitsstrategie bietet die Chance, einen stärkeren Fokus auf die horizontale Verzahnung der deutschen Bemühungen mit denen europäischer Partner zu legen. Dies ist dringend notwendig, da das deutsche Konzept bislang wenig Bezug auf die EU nimmt und...

Die Analogie zu "Wohnen in Nachbarschaften" ist nicht zufällig. Längst wissen wir, dass das Aufwachsen von Kindern und der Erfolg von Bildung und Erziehung von ihrem gesamten Lebensumfeld abhängen. Die Modernisierung des Schulsystems in England wurde daher folgerichtig unter das Motto...

In addition to traditional, cluster-oriented approaches, both cross-sectional technologies ("key enabling technologies") and societal challenges ("grand challenges") are becoming increasingly important for regional innovation strategies. A more complex, multi-dimensional approach of regional...

Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...

As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses the household members' attitudes towards saving for old age, and the relation with the household...

We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...

We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that cover the path of layoffs and quits through its bankruptcy. We find that the firm learns about its...