This article outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence the individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be enhanced through social work norms shared by peers within the group. Building on a range of German data sets and...

The main objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of sector-specific foreign aid given to education sector and aggregate foreign aid on the national educational outcomes of Pakistan, respectively.

This paper provides an analysis of the labour market entry of migrant youth in Germany after completion of an apprenticeship. We are particularly interested in the impact of local cultural diversity on a successful career start. Focusing on the cohort of people completing apprenticeships in...

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

This article analyses the school performance of migrants dependent on peer groups in different international schooling environments. Using data from the international OECD PISA test, we consider social interaction within and between groups of natives and migrants. Results based on social...

Die Beratung der Entwicklungsländer mit Blick auf die Gestaltung der Steuerpolitik und der Erhebung der öffentlichen Einnahmen ist Gegenstand der Aktivitäten internationaler Finanzierungseinrichtungen. Die Notwendigkeit einer Unterstützung auf diesem Gebiet wird hergeleitet aus der...

Modern monetary economists argue that institutional aspects such as central bank independence and central bank conservatism play an important role for the performance of an economy. In order to be able to compare the effects of different institutions it is necessary to measure both central bank...

Managing for diversity is a management strategy that intends to make productive use of (ethnic and other) differences between individuals. It is based on the premise that - at least if they are well managed - diverse teams will produce better results and diverse companies will gain market...

As the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has shown its rapidly growing market and we approach the beginning of the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, an increasing number of non-Annex-B countries have recently established their Designated National Authorities (DNAs) to participate in...

In der bestehenden Literatur wird die Frage nach der Verortung des deutschen Ordo- und Neoliberalismus unterschiedlich beantwortet. Manche Autoren sehen sie vornehmlich in der angelsächsischen Tradition (Grossekettler 1997, Sally 1998a, Starbatty 2002, Vanberg 2004), andere betonen ihre...