The peristence of European unemployment stands in striking contrast to the cyclical pattern of unemployment in the US. Many people attribute the rise in European unemployment to increased imbalances between the pattern of labour d¤ emand and supply - in other words, to greater mismatch, but...

This article focuses on the relationship between the Dollar and the German stock market. Since there is only weak significance of a stable bivariate long-run relationship, relevant information sets are limited to shorter periods. Using rolling regressions, the results show that direction and...

This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most other countries, turning a critical cutoff age does not cause a sharp discontinuity from juvenile to...

This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data on the different stages of the criminal prosecution process in Germany, empirical evidence...

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Sweden) and traditional countries of...

Der Artikel beschreibt die Bedeutung nationaler Einwanderungskriterien für die Zusammensetzung nationaler Stichproben am PISA-2000-Test und analysiert das entsprechende Zustandekommen der internationalen PISA-Ergebnisse. Die Rollen der für das Leseergebnis von Migranten zentralen...