The different economic situation of men and women in Austria demonstrates the necessity to adopt further equality measures. The systematic use of gender budget analysis constitutes an important basis for the improvement of gender equality. Since 1999, the European Union has considered gender...

Within the scope of a pilot study, WIFO examined chapters of the household of Upper Austria from a gender perspective (gender budget analysis). Education, health and sports were analysed by a number of analysis methods. Using an expenditure incidence analysis, the state's spending on health was...

This article examines recent progress at assigning monetary values to what are normally considered "hard to quantify" benefits of transportation projects. It focuses on three types of impacts - environmental quality, health and wider economic impacts - to examine how transportation project...

A study of ten Polish entrepreneurs operating in Leicester, UK is reported in this article. The concepts of social, cultural and economic capital are used as the lens through which to explore the way the capital they access is employed and converted into entrepreneurial activity. Ethnic...

Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird ein Einstieg in die Diskussion zum Thema Corporate Governance von Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPO) geliefert, indem ein Ueberblick ueber unterschiedliche wissenschaftliche und alltagspraktische Verstaendnisse von Governance gegeben wird. Wissenschaftliche...

Although H2O has been the topic of considerable research since the beginning of the century, the peculiar physical properties are still not well understood. We discuss recent experiments and simulations relating to the hypothesis that, in addition to the known critical point in water, there...

We investigate for the first time spin-lattice relaxation caused by particles diffusing in disordered environments. For noninteracting particles on a fractal substrate with fractal dimension df and diffusion exponent dw, we find that the NMR correlation functions G(q)(t) are asymptotically...

We present a phenomenological study of stock price fluctuations of individual companies. We systematically analyze two different databases covering securities from the three major US stock markets: (a) the New York Stock Exchange, (b) the American Stock Exchange, and (c) the National Association...

This study explores the experiences of individual inventors trying to protect, patent, and utilize their inventions. The paper also examines the extent to which inventors received public support. Drawing on an analysis of 33 case studies of Finnish independent inventors, the study explores the...