With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

"We study the returns on education in Europe in a comparative perspective. We extend the model of de la Fuente [(2003). Human Capital in a Global and Knowledgebased Economy. part II: Assessment at the EU Country Level. Report for the European Commission], by estimating the values of the relevant...

"We study the returns on education in Europe in a comparative perspective. We extend the model of de la Fuente [(2003). Human Capital in a Global and Knowledgebased Economy. part II: Assessment at the EU Country Level. Report for the European Commission], by estimating the values of the relevant...

"Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that provide income and employment security. On the other hand they influence the capacities of labor...

"Institutional changes in the governance of employment services were the starting point of comprehensive labour market and social policy reforms - the so-called Hartz-reforms (2003-2005) - in Germany. Particularly with the Hartz IV reform in 2005 Germany's status- and occupation-oriented social...

Die gekoppelte Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung in Heizkraftwerken stellt zweifellos eine bedeutende Strategie zur Verminderung der vom Energieeinsatz ausgehenden Umweltprobleme dar. Zudem ist es volkswirtschaftlich gesehen vorteilhaft, den Raumwärme- und Warmwasserbedarf mit...

Zum 31.12.2009 läuft die Förderung der Altersteilzeit durch die Bundesagentur für Arbeit aus. Das Altersteilzeitgesetz besteht darüber hinaus jedoch fort. Daher melden sich unterschiedliche gesellschaftliche Gruppen mit Vorschlägen zu Wort, wie die Altersteilzeit sich zukünftig gestalten...

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...