Mit dem Modellprojekt "Berliner Joboffensive" (BJO) sollte die Anzahl der Integratio-nen von erwerbsfähigen Leistungsberechtigten (eLb) in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt durch eine intensivere Betreuung erhöht werden. Hierfür war vorgesehen, dass in allen zwölf Berliner Jobcentern insgesamt 650...

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 and...

The majority of empirical papers in the literature on school quality finds no or only small effects of class size and other school quality measures on students' outcomes. This paper analyses the effect of achievement heterogeneity and therefore the effect of the composition rather than the pure...

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany.On average,German students participating in this standardized test performed considerably below the OECD average and substantially worse than those of other European countries,like Finland or...

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process,known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor.Therefore,the paper aims at providing a quantitative...