Discussion Papers

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

Unemployment, Labor Market Training Programs and Regional Wages: An Extended Wage Curve Approach

The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reduction of Standard Hours in Germany

Dokumentation des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels (SOEP): Erhebungsdesign, Fallzahlen und erhebungsbedingte Ausfälle sowie die Schätzung von Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten bis Welle 12 (1984 bis 1995) [Stichprobe A, B und C]

Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP) (1984 until 1995) [Subsamples A, B, C]

Methodische Fragen der Ermittlung des Wertes der Altbestände des ostdeutschen Anlagevermögens

Financing On-The-Job Training: Shared Investment or Promotion Based System? Evidence from Germany

"Systemic Fatigue"?: Makroökonomische Denkmuster und Steuerungsprobleme in der Wirtschaftspolitik

Interregional Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of APEC and EU ; Paper Presented at the V. International Conference of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy Seoul ; Dec.13, 1995 ; Revised Version

Labour Supply and Wages of Married and Cohabiting Women in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Netherlands: a Decomposition Analysis

Strategie und Hauptergebnisse der Transformation in Polen

Four Decades of German Export Expansion - an Enduring Success Story?