This study deals with youth unemployment trends in Europe since the mid of the 80ths in general and regards individual risk factors for Germany and the United Kingdom in particular in the mid of the 90ths. The study for the two selected countries shows that the individual risk of (long-term)...

Leisure is an important domain of life in modern societies. To find out who participates in what leisure activities, two different theoretical approaches are available. Classical inequality theories posit that differences in leisure activities are strongly connected with social position. In...

We consider a model of an information network where nodes can fail and transmission of information is costly. The formation of paths in such networks is modeled as the Nash equilibrium of an N player routing game. The task of obtaining this equilibrium is shown to be NP-Hard. We derive...

Vor der Einführung des Euro-Bargeldes war die Zustimmung zum Euro in Deutschland im Vergleich zu den anderen an der Währungsunion teilnehmenden Ländern gering. Nach der Bargeldeinführung war zunächst eine Euro-Begeisterung zu verzeichnen, die in den folgenden Wochen allerdings wieder etwas...

Anders als bei der Bevölkerung insgesamt haben sich die ökonomischen und sozialen Lebensbedingungen der Jugendlichen in Deutschland nach der Wiedervereinigung angeglichen. Mit Hilfe der vom DIW Berlin zusammen mit Infratest Sozialforschung erhobenen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)...

The introduction of a single European currency, the euro, is one of the biggest political projects undertaken up to now promoting European unity. However, in some countries - such as Germany - acceptance is still not high, even several years after the currency's introduction. Yet widespread...