Ausgehend von der seit einiger Zeit in Wissenschaft, Politik und Teilen der Öffentlichkeit geführten Debatte über die "Zukunft des Ehrenamtes" geht die vorliegende Arbeit der Frage nach, welche charakteristischen Merkmale ehrenamtliches Engagement von anderen produktiven Tätigkeiten...

Following Cohn, Rhine and Santos (1989) and Koshal and Koshal (1999),we use American data, i.e., a matched data set of 730 private and 820 public colleges and universities, to estimate multi-product cost functions in higher education. We use federal research grants as a proxy for research output...

Since the late 1990s, the European higher education system has had to face deep structural changes. With the public authorities seeking to create an environment of quasi-markets in the higher education sector, the increased competition induced by recent reforms has pushed all publicly financed...