Peanuts, Talente oder Tiden: So oder ähnlich heißen die lokalen Währungen, die seit Mitte der neunziger Jahre in Deutschland entstanden sind. Die Mitglieder von Tauschringen nutzen sie, um Waren und Dienstleistungen auszutauschen. Ziel der Tauschringe ist es, eine neue Form erweiterter...

The aim of this paper is to check whether intergovernmental transfers for water projects accepted in 1986 can be rationalized by a simple efficiency criterion. The empirical findings support this conjecture only partially.

In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the political agenda. In this paper we investigate the determinants of job satisfaction for nurses,...

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...