Zusammenfassung Bis vor kurzem führten touristische Reiserouten in der Regel vom globalen „Westen“ in den so genannten „Rest der Welt“. Doch was passiert, wenn Menschen aus dem globalen Osten und Süden plötzlich in der Rolle zu bedienst leistender Touristinnen vor den Türen...

Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung und Bewertung von touristischen Sport-Events zur Beurteilung ihrer Förderwürdigkeit durch die öffentliche Hand. Anhand bestehender Instrumente der Event-Wirkungsforschung und der strategischen Bewertung von Events wurden...

The canonical model of life-cycle labor supply predicts a positive response of labor supplied to transitory wage changes. We tested this prediction by conducting a randomized field experiment with bicycle messengers. In contrast to previous studies we can observe in which way working hours as...

This paper proposes sequential matching and inverse selection probability weighting to estimate dynamic causal effects. The sequential matching estimators extend simple, matching estimators based on propensity scores for static causal analysis that have been frequently applied in the evaluation...

According to the classical human capital theory general training is entirely financed by workers. This prediction is at odds with the empirical evidence. This observation inspired new theoretical models of training in frictional labour market. These frictions create incentives for firms to...

Work-related training is considered to be very important for providing the workforce with the necessary skills for maintaining and enhancing the competitiveness of the firms and the economy. On the individual level, the primary effect of training should be an increased productivity of the...