Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration emanating from outside Europe, sectoral skill shortages...

Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained from a structural labor demand model, the empirical...

In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment.We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...

Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under...

Identifying the incidence of free-ridership is significant to a range of issues relevant to program evaluation, including the calculation of net program benefits and more general assessments of political acceptability. Estimates of freeridership in the area of energy policy frequently rely on...

Using data from the German SOEP, this paper analyses whether there have been (a) any significant changes in poverty rates and poverty intensities before and after the Hartz IV reforms and (b) whether there have been observable changes in the effect of employment in reducing the threat or...

This paper examines the sustainability of weight loss achieved through cash rewards and, for the first time, the potential of monetary incentives to prevent weight cycling. In a three period randomized controlled trial, about 700 obese persons were assigned to two treatment groups, which were...

Mit dem Reha Rating Report 2009 liegt der zweite Report für die deutschen Reha-Einrichtungen vor. Ziel ist die Erhöhung der Transparenz über den Rehabilitations- und Vorsorgemarkt durch eine strukturierte Aufbereitung der Daten und Bereitstellung von Analysen zu wichtigen Fragestellungen....

Die „Ökonomisierung“ des Gesundheitswesens und somit auch des Krankenhausmarktes macht sich seit Beginn der neunziger Jahre verstärkt in der Eigentümerstruktur der Krankenhäuser bemerkbar (Neubauer 1999). Sie äußert sich u.a. in einer Verschiebung der Anteile an der Versorgung aller...