Despite a dramatic decline in output as a result of the global financial and economic crisis, Germany's labour market held up well compared with other countries. This was the conclusion reached by the first comprehensive assessment of Germany's policy to tackle the crisis, issued by the ILO.

In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable...

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the...

"Preface" -- "Contents" -- "Abbreviations" -- "List of tables" -- "List of figures" -- "How to use this book" -- "Part I: Financial statements according to German GAAP" -- "1 Introduction to accounting" -- "2 Introduction to German accounting" -- "3 Financial statements according to Commercial...

Intro -- Vorbemerkung -- Danksagung -- Ziele und Aufbau des Buches -- Inhalt -- Abbildungsverzeichnis -- Tabellenverzeichnis -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- Teil I: Rahmenbedingungen und Grundlagen -- 1. Rahmenbedingungen und externe Einflussfaktoren -- 2. Rechtliche Grundlagen -- 3. Der Konzern...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figure and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Where to Locate Germany on the (Economic) World Map -- Chapter 2: What You Should Know About (Our) History -- Chapter 3: What You Should Know About Our Economy -- Chapter 4: What (Else) Makes People in...

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1: General Information -- Chapter 2: How Does the Immune System Work? -- Chapter 3: Blood Types -- Chapter 4: Transplantation -- Chapter 5: Autoimmune Diseases -- Chapter 6: HIV and AIDS -- Chapter 7: Milestones in HIV -- Chapter 8: Allergies -- Chapter 9: Ethical...

Intro -- Section 1 Diversity in Higher Education Systems -- Is German higher education non-discriminatory? -- Gender Diversity in the German Higher Education System -- Discipline-Specific Teaching Efficiency -- Section 2 Management and Efficiency in Higher Education Systems: An International...

Lowell Turner has extensively researched the German transformation in the 1990s. Indeed, in 1993 he was at the factory gates at Siemens in Rostock for the first major strike in post-Cold War eastern Germany.

This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on...