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    1 400,-

    Empirical measurement of impacts of active labour market programmes has started to become a central task of economic researchers. The empirical part provides the reader with econometric evaluations of active labour market programmes in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Slovak Republic and Sweden.

  • - An Empirical Assessment
    av Anja Kuckulenz
    732,-

    This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Wage and productivity effects of training are analyzed, explicitly accounting for the heterogeneity of training participants. In addition, evidence is given on whether positive externalities of continuing training exist.

  • - An Empirical Analysis
    av Gunnar Lang
    732 - 773,-

    This volume addresses the attractiveness of financial centers with a primary focus on the mutual fund industry. It uses different empirical analysis approaches in an attempt to disentangle the reasons for location attractiveness and in order to identify its influence on fund pricing.

  • - A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
    av Werner Smolny
    647,-

    The recent development of endogenous growth theories has renewed the in terest into the sources of productivity growth of the advanced industrialized economies.

  • av Oliver Burgel
    732,-

    This study analyzes the international activities of British start-up companies in high-technology industries. It supports a resource-based perspective since the proxies for transaction cost-based arguments and the internationalization process theory are of limited explanatory power.

  • - Competitiveness in a Changing World
     
    1 525,-

    The automotive industry is a major pillar of the modern global economy and one of Europe's key industries. This book sheds light on a broad range of issues - globalisation and restructuring, trade and foreign direct investment, innovation, regulation, and industry policy.

  • - Impact on the Size of Tax Bases and Effective Tax Burdens
    av Christoph Spengel & Andreas Oestreicher
    1 103,-

    The European Commission envisages putting forward a proposal for a tax reform that would allow improving the efficiency and simplicity of the corporate income tax systems. This report assesses the impact of a Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) on the size of the corporate tax bases of EU companies.

  • - An Empirical Study
    av Frank Reize
    654,-

    This doctoral dissertation, submitted to the University of Mannheim, was written during my employment as a research fellow at the Zentrum fiir Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research) in Mann­ heim. My work profited very much from the fruitful environment provided by the ZEW and particularly by the Department of Labour Markets, Human Resources and Social Policy. I am very grateful to my advisor, Professor Wolfgang Franz, for his support and inspiration. I am also indebted to Friedhelm Pfeiffer for encouraging me to work on the topicoftransition from unemployment to self-employment. Also, Part IIIof this study gained very much from the joint work with FriedheIm Pfeiffer. Fur­ thermore, I am much obliged to Professor JosefBniderl for evaluating this disser­ tation. I would like to thank the "Forderverein Wissenschaft und Praxis am Zentrum fiir Europaische Wirtschaftsforschung e.V." for financial support of part of this study. My work also benefited from the comments and the help of numerous people other than those mentioned above. Knowing that the list of acknowledgement is incomplete, I would like to thank Professor Francois Laisney and Matthias Almus for their valuable comments on the selection models, Professor William Greene for his helpful remarks on the bivariate probit model, Professor John Ham and an anonymous referee for their very valuable comments on preliminary work of this study, and Joachim Keller, Jens Kohlberger and Yibo Ren for providing excellent research assistance. Obviously, all remaining errors are my own responsibility.

  • - Quantitative Studies for OECD Countries
    av Dan Stegarescu
    1 400,-

    Offers an empirical analysis of the determinants of changes in the distribution of expenditure and revenue-raising powers among fiscal tiers in OECD countries. Using an indicator of fiscal decentralisation, which accounts for subnational decision-making autonomy, common decentralisation trends are investigated.

  • - An Integrated Approach
    av Kai Huschelrath
    1 400,-

    Competition policy is an integral and prominent part of economic policy-making in the European Union. More precisely, the goal of EU competition policy is "to defend and develop effective competition in the common market" (European Commission, 2000: 7).

  • - Evidence for Inflation Targeting Countries
    av Felix Hufner
    647,-

    Foreign exchange intervention is frequently being used by central banks in countries which have a floating exchange rate.

  • - An Empirical Analysis of Wages, Hours Restrictions and Employment from a Dutch-German Perspective
    av Elke Wolf
    732,-

    Most of the studies are part of the re search project "Working hours flexibility and employment" (Arbeitszeitjlexi bilisierung und Beschiijtigung) which was conducted at the Centre for Euro pean Economic Research (ZEW) with financial support by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

  • - Current Situation, Past Developments and Simulations of Reforms
    av Otto H. Jacobs
    654,-

    Our small book presents areport which has been prepared in the year 2000 for the Taxation and Custorns Union Directorate General of the European Commission, under contract no.

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    732,-

    Looking back over the last decade it can be said with some justification that sig nificant progress has been achieved on the way towards fully integrated financial markets in Europe.

  • - Evaluating Key Characteristics with a Focus on Immigrants
    av Thomas Walter
    1 400 - 1 441,-

    In January 2005, the German government enacted a substantial reform of the welfare system, the so-called "Hartz IV reform". It investigates whether a centralized or decentralized organization of welfare administration is more successful to integrate welfare recipients into employment.

  • - A Study on Behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    av H. Legler
    654,-

    Gaining insights into the German innovation system and the institutional framework is as important to policy making as is data on the endowment of the German economy with factors fostering innovation and their recent development.

  • - Country-Specific Success Factors of the Global Diffusion of Innovations
    av Marian Beise
    654,-

    subsequent adoption of an innovation design preferred in the lead market by other countries, can be put down to the special market context in the lead market.

  • av Ulrich Kaiser
    654,-

    Empirical and theoretical evidence on the German service sector is inversely related to its growing overall importance for the entire economy.

  • - An Empirical Investigation
    av Jens Koke
    647,-

    Using a data set of German corporations this book examines three topics in corporate governance: the frequency, causes, and consequences of control transfers; the determinants of acquisition and failure; and the role of corporate governance and market discipline for productivity growth.

  • av Erik Paul Luders
    1 304,-

    In this book the relation between the characteristics of investors' preferences and expectations and equilibrium asset price processes are analysed.

  • - An Analysis for West Germany
    av Bernd Fitzenberger
    1 400,-

    In the presence of a skill bias in labor demand, which increases the relative de mand for more highly skilled labor over time, there only seems to exist the choice between higher wage inequality or higher unemployment rates.

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