This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...

Honey production and trade in the world are introduced. Total output of honey shows an increasing trend while the output of Chinese honey always ranks the first in the world. China, Argentina, Mexico are the major exporters of honey. In the year 2006, honey exports of China, Argentina and Mexico...

This dissertation, titled “Flexibility in European Wage Structure and itsimplications for the European Unemployment,” studies the problem of high rates ofunemployment in Europe during the last few decades through the optic of European wagebehavior. It examines the European wage structure –...