Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities between unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities between regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by...

This article is an overview study on migrant entrepreneurship in Hamburg with a special focus on Turkish entrepreneurs. On the basis of 58 semistructured interviews conducted between October 2008 and January 2009, several patterns such as entrepreneurial motivation, business development and...

So far, the cumulative installed capacity of wind power projects in India is far below their gross potential (È 15%) despite very high level of policy support, tax benefits, long term financing schemes etc, for more than 10 years etc. One of the major barriers is the high costs of investments...

Labour markets in most highly developed countries are marked by rising levels of skill segregation in the production process and increasing inequalities in skill-specific employment prospects. The local skill structure is frequently regarded as a major cause for regional growth disparities....

The paper analyzes whether citizenship acquisition affects the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. Up to the present, there is no empirical evidence about this question for Germany. Theoretically, naturalization can increase the productivity by enabling unrestricted access to the...

Im Zentrum der nachfolgenden Analyse steht die Frage, welche Auswirkungen die von der Bundesregierung kürzlich beschlossene Laufzeitverlängerung der Kernkraftwerke von durchschnittlich zwölf Jahren auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der erneuerbaren Energien hat.

The issue of migration and development became in the last years highly relevant on the global policy agenda. Countries and international organisations increasingly perceive migration as a phenomenon that can positively impact development in both migrant receiving and sending countries, provided...

Der deutsche Ordoliberalismus wird jüngst im Zusammenhang mit dem 60. Jahrestag der Erhard'schen Reformen von 1948 gefeiert. Zahlreiche Kommentatoren, Ökonomen und Journalisten gleichermaßen, sind sich dabei einig, dass obwohl die Soziale Marktwirtschaft als Leitmotiv nicht in Freiburg...

Afforestation and Reforestation (A/R), also widely termed LULUCF have been an important field of conflict in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol. The first methodology for A/R projects has been submitted only by October 2004 and the first project was registered only in...