This paper analyses progress and obstacles to gas sector reform in the most important CIS-countries (Russia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan), taking a political economy perspective. This reform process is embedded in a very specific post-Soviet institutional framework stemming from the legacy of socialism. Firstly, we review the evolution of the gas sector for the period 1992-1998. The paper then ...
The ongoing change of demographic and economic structures does not undermine employment (as many believe), but this change indeed induces problems with the mandatory old-age security system in Germany. This paper discusses some popular reform proposals and concludes with another proposal which takes into account economic incentives. Especially the gerontological aim of a longer lifetime employment ...
In diesem Beitrag geht es um Stabilität und Wandel ost-und westdeutscher Generationenbeziehungen nach der Wiedervereinigung. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen erwachsene Kinder und Eltern, die nicht mehr im selben Haushalt leben. Die allermeisten Eltern und erwachsenen Kinder wohnen nicht weit voneinander entfernt und berichten von einem engen Verhältnis zueinander. Gleichzeitig stehen viele Eltern ...
Mit Argumenten aus der "Theorie des Marktversagens" und der "Neuen Politischen Ökonomie" kann gezeigt werden, daß Universitäten und Forschungsinstitute spezielle "Öffentliche Güter" produzieren, die eine Grundfinanzierung durch den Staat unter Effizienzgesichtspunkten rechtfertigen. Allerdings wäre die Produktion solcher wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsergebnisse durch einen einzigen ...
The unemployment rate might not serve as an accurate measure of labor market slack when analysing countries with large scale labor market programs. We replicate and extend the wage curve for East Germany. The results are in favor of the incorporation of such policy measures.
We use data from the East German sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the incomes of privileged individuals during the transition from socialism to capitalism. The standard measure of elite status is party membership, but this measure is likely to be inaccurate. Instead we identify the upperclass by the ownership of a telephone before the fall of the Berlin Wall. We find that ...
