Discussion Papers

Prinzipien moderner Technologiepolitik

During the last decade a number of principles of modern technology policy emerged from the intensive debate on efficient designs of technology policy to encourage and strengthen the competitiveness of economies. While at the beginning national innovation systems like national economies seemed to be a sufficient framework the ongoing process of globalization of knowledge production and its rapid diffusion ...

Renten im Transformationsprozeß: zur Lage in Polen, Ungarn, Tschechien und der Slowakei

Restructuring and Competition Strategies of Privatised Enterprises in East Germany: What Lessons for Russia?

The Transition in East Germany: When is a Ten Point Fall in the Gender Wage Gap Bad News?

Regulatory Reform in the Energy Industry of Post-Soviet Countries: Same Name, Different Content

This paper analyses the issues of regulatory reform in the energy industry of post- Soviet countries. We identify the characteristics of the transformation that these countries go through: it is the introduction of a) a new legal culture and b) a capitalist rationality of production in societies embedded in a post-Soviet institutional context. We identify existing models to which these countries' regulations ...

Wer trägt die pauschale Lohnsteuer bei geringfügiger Beschäftigung? eine Inzidenzanalyse der Stundenlöhne abhängig erwerbstätiger Frauen

Stabilität und Wandel von Generationenbeziehungen

Dienstleistungen im Prozeß der Internationalisierung

The Shipbuilding Industry in East and West: Industry Dynamics, Science and Technology Policies and Emerging Patterns of Cooperation

Shipbuilding has changed from a "heavy industry" to become a capital- and technologyintensive activity over the last decades. While Japanese, South Korean and Western European yards dominate the merchant shipbuilding market so far, Eastern European yards are increasingly active, in particular in low and medium complex ships. We develop a market analysis and identify the axes of competition in international ...

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP) (1984 until 1996)

The Computer Software Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?

National science and technology (S&T) systems are often mentioned as a condition for competitiveness of high technology sectors. Therefore, public S&T policies should actively support the development of national S&T systems. In particular in Eastern Europe an active S&T policy is often demanded to support the development of the supposed domestic "high technology potential". This paper shows that this ...

The Computer Industry in East and West: Do Eastern European Countries Need a Specific Science and Technology Policy?

National science and technology (S&T) systems are mentioned, in politics as well as in science, as a condition for the competitiveness of domestic high technology industries. An active S&T policy has, therefore, great importance for governments. Eastern European countries see, in an active S&T policy, the key for the creation of a new computer industry, which collapsed with socialism. With an industrial ...

Methodological Aspects of Environmental Labour Market Analysis

High and persistent unemployment rates and increasing awareness of environmental degradation in many industrial countries have promoted the interest in the labour market effects of environmental policy. Environmental labour market analysis is fraught with many difficulties, however. Being unaware of these problems may result in misunderstandings and mislead policy makers. In environmental labour market ...

Die Geringfügigkeitsregelung und das Arbeitsangebot verheirateter Frauen: theoretische Überlegungen, ein ökonometrisches Modell und die Simulation von Reformvorschlägen

Deregulation and Enterprization in Central and Eastern Telecommunication - a Benchmark for the West?

The restructuring of telecommunication in Central and Eastern Europe occurs at a time when the classical structures of telecommunication are falling apart worldwide. Coming from the socialist system in which telecommunication did not exist as an independent economic activity, the Eastern European countries have created specific "post-socialist" modes of reform, often outdoing Western countries in terms ...

Industrial Restructuring in Ukraine: from Socialism to a Planned Economy?

Six years into post-socialist economic reform, a division has appeared between the Central and Eastern European reform countries (CEE) and the CIS-countries. Whereas the former are dedicated to introducing the institutions of a capitalist market economy, the European CIS-countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakstan) still hang on to some type of state-planning and a high degree of political interference ...

Schattenwirtschaft in Osteuropa: Das Beispiel der Ukraine

The Economics of Fatherhood: An Analysis of Men in East Germany in Comparison to Men in West Germany

Assimilation and Other Determinants of School Attainment in Germany: do Immigrant Children Perform as Well as Germans?

Zur sozio-ökonomischen Lage von Zuwanderern in West-Deutschland