Auch im zehnten Jahr nach der Wiedervereinigung sind die Spuren der Planwirtschaft in der ostdeutschen Wirtschaft noch deutlich zu sehen. Obwohl schon eine weite Wegstrecke zurückgelegt wurde, ist der ökonomische Aufholprozess noch lange nicht abgeschlossen. Seit 1997 scheint die Anpassung an...

"The prospects for Germany's economic development are good at present. Nonetheless there are also uncertainties and downsides. For this reason our labour market forecast for 2000 is based on a range of assumptions for the actual economic growth. The overview includes the basic data of these...

"In this article we present the interdisciplinary, developmental and systemic approach to the study of work and aging that guides research at the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). We introduce basic principles of adult development including its plasticity,...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"This paper analyses the development of labour productivity of a sample of comparable small and medium-sized enterprises in eastern and western Germany in the period 1992-2002. It emerges that the surviving eastern German enterprises were able to raise their efficiency to just under 87 % of the...

"In this article we present the interdisciplinary, developmental and systemic approach to the study of work and aging that guides research at the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). We introduce basic principles of adult development including its plasticity,...

"The paper analyses the directions of inter-regional migration in Poland in the years 1995-2002 and points out some major factors that cause the migration. The analyses indicate the voivodships with the largest net migration flows (Mazowieckie, Pomorskie) are characterized by high relative GDP...

"Nach einer IAB/Ifo-Erhebung im Bankgewerbe erwarten in den kommenden Jahren bis 1991 die Kreditunternehmen insgesamt sowohl für das Geschäftsvolumen als auch für die Beschäftigung einen weiteren, jedoch im Vergleich zu 1982 bis 1986 leicht abgeschwächten Zuwachs, und zwar von gut 5% p.a....