Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyse the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well as the wage level. While there are small, but...

Anthropogenic pressures on the Earth System have reached a scale where major environmental change can no longer be excluded. Science has already set planetary environmental boundaries within which humanity can operate safely. Transgressing these will likely trigger abrupt environmental change on...

In recent decades, globalisation has stirred up a number of positive and negative developments in national and international environments. An important feature of globalisation is the rise of the economic, social, cultural and political power of corporations. While corporate activities may...

The concern of this contribution is a problem connected with a limited usage of Internet space, which is based on domain names connecting common users with terminal information for the World Wide Web. The main focus is especially on a legislation of disputes for .eu domain names. After the...

The Hodrick-Prescott (HP) method was originally developed to smooth time series, i.e. to get a smooth (long-term) component. We show that the HP smoother can be viewed as a Bayesian linear model with a strong prior for the smoothness component. Extending this Bayesian approach in a linear model...

Since the 1990s, professional football has been experiencing an unprecedented economic boom worldwide, but only a few football clubs can meet the rapidly-changing economic requirements. There are important questions that remain unanswered within the financing of football clubs, such as the...

Gender inequalities in mortality/life expectancy have been a major area of research in the social sciences since the 1970s. However, the questions posed and the research strategies used are still in a state of flux. In the present paper we shed some light on two related questions: (i) Which...

We fully display a cohort model of an economy with an aging population, taking into account complications such as varying household size, habit formation, inheritance and credit constraints. Filling the model with numbers, we are able to compare different pension reforms: 1. the base run, where...