This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

Die Entwicklung auf den Arbeitsmärkten nimmt seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre einen prominenten Platz auf der Agenda der EU ein. Vor dem Hintergrund gravierender Probleme, vor allem anhaltend hoher Arbeitslosigkeit, hat die EU verschiedene Schritte gesetzt. Die EU wie auch andere internationale...

Surveys are a widely used tool to answer socio-economic research question across disciplines. However, data collection can face certain problems such as nonresponding units. For household and population surveys, a large body of literature about the effects of nonresponse exist but only less is...