The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European regions mainly relies on functional form assumptions. However, it is ex ante not clear which functional form is appropriate with regard to the relationship between structural funds...

The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about the channels through which this policy field works....

More than one third of the European Union's total budget is spent on socalled Cohesion Policy via the structural funds. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of the various European regions. Investigating the impact...

Das Thema der geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede in den Karrierechancen wird kontrovers diskutiert. Verschiedene Studien belegen, dass im europäischen Vergleich in Deutschland das Potential, insbesondere bei gut ausgebildeten Frauen, nach wie vor nicht ausgeschöpft wird. Diese Studie soll...

This paper evaluates a placement coaching program implemented in Zurich during 2009-2013 that focused on the reemployment of persons drawing disability insurance (DI) benefits. A private company was commissioned to implement the program. Kernel-based matching and radius matching with bias...

Diese aktuelle Studie untersucht die Arbeitssituation von lesbischen Frauen in Deutschland. Dabei vergleicht sie die Erfahrungen erwerbstätiger lesbischer Frauen mit denen heterosexueller Frauen und untersucht Diskriminierung im Bewerbungsverfahren von Berufseinsteigerinnen. Die Ergebnisse...

B2C e-commerce is still one of the fastest growing marketing channels in almost all product categories yielding to less bundled direct-to-consumer deliveries. Last mile deliveries cause costs and emissions especially in urban areas with a high density of e-customers. Therefore, stakeholders in...

Urban area tessellation is a crucial aspect in many spatial analyses. While regular tessellation methods, like square-grid or hexagon-grid, are suitable for addressing pure geometry problems, they cannot take the unique characteristics of different subareas into account. Irregular tessellation...

The research project 'start2park' closes a research gap by precisely measuring parking search duration (cruising for parking) - especially the starting point of search - using a mobile app developed for this purpose. Complete journeys' location data and durations are recorded, including driving...

Seit dem 1. Januar 2002 ist das Job-AQTIV Gesetz in Deutschland in Kraft. Das Gesetz hat nicht nur die Absicht, gemeldete Stellen möglichst schnell und passgenau zu besetzen, sondern Personen, die zum Teil Arbeitslosigkeits- und Maßnahme-Karrieren hinter sich haben, intensiv zu betreuen, deren...