Product Description: Die vorliegende Arbeit schlieGt ein lange res Forschungsprojekt zu okonomischen Aspekten familialer Entscheidungen abo Ausgangs punkte waren einerseits die bedeutenden Veranderungen demogra phi scher Prozesse in Verbindung mit der gestiegenen Arbeits marktaktivitat verheirateter Frauen, die empirisch aufgearbei tet und vor dem Hintergrund eines theoretischen Modells be wertet werden sollten...read more

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In recent years, population economics has become increasingly popular in both economic and policy analysis. For the inquiry into the long term development of an economy, the interaction between demographic change and economic activity cannot be neglected without omitting major aspects of the problems. This volume helps to further developments in theoretical and applied demographical economics covering the issues of demographic change and economic development. The interaction between demographic change and economic development in the long run is one central issue. One conjecture is that it is mainly the relative population pressure which controls the pace of economic development. However, econometric evidence presented in the book does not support this hypothesis. Other papers deal with the relationships between fertility and business cycle fluctuations, the timing of births, the efficiency in intergenerational transfers, the role of open economies for the population issue, historical perspectives of demographic change in Hungary and an outline of recent developments of applied modelling using input-output models, programming models or econometric techniques.

Product Description: This book reports new developments in applied econometrics. All papers originated in two international workshops that were organized in the University of Munich on July 6-7, 1989, and on January 11 - 12, 1990. Financial support for these conferences by the University of Munich and the Thyssen Foundation is gratefully acknowledged...read more

Product Description: This book consists of four parts: I. Labour demand and supply, II. Productivity slowdown and innovative activity, III. Disequilibrium and business cycle analysis, and IV. Time series analysis of output and employment. It presents a fine selection of articles in the growing field ofthe empirical analysis of output and employment fluctuations with applications in a micro-econometric or a time-series framework...read more

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Product Description: Das Buch befaßt sich mit neueren Entwicklungen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften und gibt einen Überblick über die in den letzten Jahren erzielten Forschungsergebnisse und neue zentrale Forschungsthemen. Folgende Themenbereiche werden behandelt: Geldtheorie, Geldpolitik und Finanzmärkte; Finanzwissenschaft; Arbeitsökonomie; Institutionen und Transformation; Wettbewerb und Regulierung; Netzwerkökonomie; Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung; Personelle Einkommensverteilung; Spieltheorie und experimentelle Ökonomie...read more

Product Description: ‘This collection brings together every article on immigration that I have ever used in my graduate and undergraduate labour economics courses (plus a number of others as well). Many of these are quite old and thus hard to locate, but are still the best on their topics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Deutschland ist aus dem Tritt geraten: Massenarbeitslosigkeit, nicht mehr finanzierbare soziale Sicherungssysteme, überschuldete öffentliche Haushalte, ein Staat, der die nötigen Reformen nur zögerlich angeht - all das gibt Anlass zur Sorge...read more

Product Description: Die Zuwanderungspolitik der letzten Jahrzehnte ist eine Politik des gebremsten Erfolges. Immer weniger Migranten stehen dem Arbeitsmarkt aktiv zur Verfügung. Falsche Arbeitsmarktanreize spielen dabei eine wichtige Rolle. Eine kritische Bilanz von Erfolgen und Misserfolgen der Arbeitsmarktintegration von Zuwanderern ist notwendig, um Kurskorrekturen vornehmen zu können...read more

Product Description: This book examines the history of German immigration policy. It analyzes the country's future demand for immigration. Coverage develops an economic model for the effective selection and integration of labor migrants that could provide the foundation for a joint European immigration strategy...read more

Product Description: The EC population grew by 17% during 1960-90 but will fall by 2% by 2025. The dramatic growth in the number of Europe's pensioners and the rapid aging of its working population may call for active policies to improve the quantity or quality of the labor force...read more

Product Description: Economic Theory, academic policy analysis and public policy design are becoming more interdependent. Hence, the demands for close interactions between the policy community and the research community have been rising significantly...read more

Product Description: New theories of international trade suggest that pro- tectionism can make sense. This finding depends on the in- troduction of market power and increasing returns to scale into the international trade theory. The enormous political implications of this hypothesis have started a large interest in applied or empirical investigations of this issue...read more

Product Description: Deutschland ist aus dem Tritt geraten: Massenarbeitslosigkeit, nicht mehr finanzierbare soziale Sicherungssysteme, überschuldete öffentliche Haushalte, ein Staat, der die nötigen Reformen nur zögerlich angeht - all das gibt Anlass zur Sorge...read more

Product Description:  In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the natives...read more

The global migration potential in the world towards the higher developed areas has been estimated to be about 80 to 100 million people. Most of them would like to move permanently. It is expected that the numbers will further grow in the medium-term future. Normally, the issue of migration is linked to the issue of economic development. Economists, demographers and sociologists, among other social scientists have made only limitated efforts to understand the causes and consequences of migration and to provide the basis for an appropriate policy-making. The book collects eight contributions to the relevant issues involved: Migration in a rational framework of decision making; the performance of migrants; how they affect the sending countries; rural-urban migration in developing countries. The options for migration policy are also considered. The book discusses new methods to model these problems, provides new empirical findings and gives policy recommendations. It should be of value to economists, demographers and sociologists.

Product Description: 'As immigration has spread from traditional receiving nations to developed countries throughout the world, the economics of migration has become a burgeoning field of research. Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann's International Handbook offers an excellent, state-of-the-art guide to the rapidly changing intellectual terrain, providing comprehensive coverage of the topics necessary to comprehend patterns and processes of migration in the world today...read more

Product Description:  During the last decades the appearance of a family has changed substantially. Not long ago a typical family consisted of an employed man and a home-managing woman living together for their whole life times, and having one or more children, which primarily were raised by the wife...read more

Product Description: A historically unique experiment is about to enter its second decade - German unification. Early hopes for a rapid and smooth economic transformation soon turned out to be overly optimistic. Despite massive financial transfers, the political promise of a "blooming landscape" remains a vision...read more