The international economy experiments today with its most significant change since World War II. This change coincides with a renewed interest in problems created by the issue of natural, non-renewable resources, and the acute inequalities in the worldwide distribution of the wealth....

It has been reported that in contrast with North America and most of Western Europe, where growth of nuclear power have leveled out for many years, the 'greatest growth in nuclear generation' in near future is expected in China, Japan, South Korea and India. It would be naýve to believe that...

We develop and formalize a utilitarian notion of responsibility for sustainability which is inspired by Singer‟s (1972) principle and the Brundtland Commission‟s notion of sustainability (WCED 1987). We characterize this notion of responsibility through necessary and sufficient conditions,...

Die vorliegende Dissertation umfasst vier Aufsätze, von denen die ersten beiden die regionale und individuelle Persistenz von Arbeitslosigkeit analysieren. Der dritte Aufsatz erforscht das passende Design für die Höhe von finanziellen Leistungen im Rahmen von Cash-Transfer-Programmen und der...

Die Kritik am Verfahren zur Bemessung der Grundsicherungs- bzw. Sozialhilfeleistungen reißt auch nach der Reform von 2011 nicht ab. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird zunächst der Frage nachgegangen, ob der methodische Ansatz (Statistikmodell) und die vom Gesetzgeber gewählten Referenzgruppen unter...

This paper examines China's rural minimum living standard guarantee (dibao) program, one of the largest targeted transfer schemes in the world. Using household survey data matched with published administrative data, the authors provide background on the patterns of inequality and poverty in...