Belgium has one of the largest gaps in labour market outcomes between natives and individuals of foreign origin. One might expect that the children of migrants (the so-called second generation) would perform better than the first generation, as they ought to have a better knowledge of the local...

Deutschlands Arbeitslosenquoten sind bis 2005 mit jeder Rezession sprunghaft angestiegen. Das wird von neoklassischen Mikroökonomen als Funktionsstörung des Arbeitsmarktes interpretiert, was zur Ausblendung makroökonomischer Zusammenhänge und zur Verengung der Debatte auf...

Year round grazing systems that utilize stockpiled forage and/or crop residue are oftenpromoted as a way for Northern and Western cow-calf producers to reduce winterfeeding costs and improve overall profitability. This study compared the profitability of aconventional spring calving/summer...

We present results from the rst large-scale international surveyon risk preferences, conducted in 45 countries. We show substantialcross-country dierences in risk aversion, loss aversion and probabilityweighting. Moreover, risk attitudes in our sample depend not only oneconomic conditions, but...

For the project "Social Aspects of Market-Based Instruments for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions - SoMBI" Austria and Poland were chosen as case study countries to compare the impacts of an EU-wide carbon price combined with different revenue recycling policies. The detailed analysis will...

Tests for unit roots in log dividend yields, which are consistent with `rational bubbles' in stock prices, are conducted for the S&P500 and Finnish stock market indexes.In addition to the traditional unit root tests, we split the data into 10-year segments and use frequency domain analysis to...

[Einleitung ...] Die vorliegende Studie wurde von Februar bis November 2019 in Kooperation des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) mit dem Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) und der Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien (AEE)...