Some stylized facts -- The youth experience gap -- The mainstream approach to the causes of youth unemployment -- Weaknesses of the mainstream approach -- The interventionist approach -- A classification of school-to-work transition regimes -- Discussion and summary remarks

Too weak or needy? Social Work in Europe There are two tendencies in present public discussions. Social problems are seen to have their causes in the individual, and are thus not a problem of socio-economic inequality. Consequently, in Europe we find an increasing policy of self-activation and...

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on subjective well-being it is possible...

I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of...

To better understand the role of taxation in the emergence of states, this article presents an incomplete contract model of an agricultural society in which information asymmetries cause inefficient taxation, and hence outmigration, uprisings, and rent-seeking, but also urbanization. We propose...

In this paper, we discuss from an economic perspective two alternative views of restrictions of competition by sports associations. The horizontal approach views such restrictions as an agreement among the participants of a sports league with the sports association merely representing an...