Changes in fiscal policy typically entail two kinds of lags: the legislative lag--between when legislation is proposed and when it is signed into law--and the implementation lag--from when a new fiscal law is enacted and when it takes effect. These lags imply that substantial time evolves...

Male and female prime-age labor force participation rates have declined in the U.S. at a faster rate than in most developed countries over the past 20 years, even among people with a college degree. Stark differences in health outcomes, incarceration rates, and labor market, maternity and...

Das Thema Business Rules rückt seit einer Reihe von Jahren zunehmend in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses von IT-Anwendern, so dass es nahe liegt, sich diesem Ansatz verstärkt zuzuwenden. Mittels Business Rules kann betriebliche Anwendungssoftware und damit letztlich das Unternehmen schneller auf...

Viele Industrieunternehmen befinden sich derzeit in einem Wandel vom Sachleisterzum produzierenden Dienstleister. Die Gründe hierfür liegen neben einer Möglichkeitzur Differenzierung des Angebots im Wettbewerb und einer zunehmenden kundenseitigenNachfrage nach Dienstleistungen insbesondere in...

Companies from established industrial nations are faced with a multitude of threats,caused especially by companies from developing nations such as India or China. Inthe past, these threats were primarily based on the common practice of imitatingproducts of competitors from developed,...

Due to the rapid technologic change, we see the role of manufacturing workers continuously changing: the increasing automation of manufacturing processes has reduced the amount of manual work, whereas the increasing complexity of manufacturing systems requires workers to build-up broader and...