Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...

Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...

Wages in Germany are usually fixed in a two-step process. Firstly, unions and employers' associations negotiate wage agreements at industry level. Secondly, the sectoral wage is modified at establishment level according to the demands of management, works councils and individual employees. Since...

Durch die Etablierung des Leitbilds "Nachhaltige Entwicklung" entstehen neue Anforderungen an die Evaluatoren. Aus der Europäischen Umweltpolitik kann gleichzeitig eine Verpflichtung zur Evaluation der Nachhaltigkeit von Politiken und Programmen abgeleitet werden. Durch den Wandel in der...

Why do donor countries give foreign aid? The answers found in the literature are: <p> (i) because donor countries care for recipient countries (e.g. altruism), and/or (ii) <p> because there exist distortions that make the indirect gains from foreign aid (e.g. <p> terms of trade effects) to be larger than...</p></p></p>