moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will … give new direction to the neighbourhood effects debate. The ten challenges are: 1) Future work should concentrate on …

notoriously low selfemployment rate. Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such programmes is scarce. The contribution of the … present paper is twofold: first, we evaluate the effectiveness of two start-up programmes for the unemployed. Our outcome …

Germany in the last decade. The effectiveness of the most important programs (in terms of participants and spending) such as … effectiveness of two start-up programs in East Germany. Our findings – even though partly preliminary – are rather promising …

across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …