Eine quantitativ und qualitativ leistungsfähige Verkehrsinfrastruktur ist für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft mit ihrem hohen Grad an Arbeitsteilung, ihren vielfältigen Austauschbeziehungen und ihrer zentraleuropäischen Lage eine grundlegende Voraussetzung für wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und...

Cruise industry has increased in popularity all around the world, serving a heterogeneous clientele with well-differentiated expectations and preferences mainly in Asian, European and North American Markets. Greece as one of the most attractive tourism destinations is ranked highly among the...

In the current economical and financial crisis, the economic evaluation of transport infrastructure investment projects is of most importance. Given the need of most governments to reduce spending and control the deficit, having tools that facilitate decision-making seems to be a key objective....

New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...

A standard object of empirical analysis in labor economics is a modified Mincer wage function in which an individual’s log wage is a function of education, experience, and race. We analyze this approach in a context where individuals live and work in different locations (thus facing different...

We test the hypothesis that exits from the labor market for pre-retirement individuals in Spain respond mainly to economic conditions and to incentives by analyzing two effects. First, we test the existence of spillover effects from a reform of the old-age pension system on transitions from...

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...

Monthly wage series with quarterly periodicity between December 1994 and December 2004 for thirteen regions in Chile are presented in this paper. These series are based on the information recollected by the Superintendencia de Fondos de Pensiones (Pensions Fund Superintendence), but are...

The research of this paper is about casinos in the southernmost city in the Republic of Macedonia – Gevgelija, its geographical position and their role on the development of gambling tourism. Gambling tourism as a special form of tourism, for some world famous tourist destinations is the main...