To fight long-term unemployment in Germany, a newpromotional program by the German Federal government startedin October 1994 - "Guidelines for the promotion ofreintegrating the hard-to-place unemployed by means of…
The project was conducted with the goal of preparing a valid policy outline capable of producing consensus with respect to the promotion of renewables in the energy industry. A bidding model based on the…
The profitability of vocational and further training activities differs with respect to the individual, firms’ and the economy’s point of view. These differences explain some of the observed heterogeneity of…
The objective of the project is the development of a method for the assessment of the quality of different transportation systems and service providers in Europe. The scope of the method for both the…
The economic structural change taking place throughout the world today is progressively driven by the “intensification of knowledge”. Knowledge accumulation and an economy’s capability to learn, to generate and to…
Technological progress in western economies has contributed to an immense rise in productivity, incomes and goods available over the last hundred years. Though not to the same extent as productivity and wages,…
The study provides theoretically and empirically well founded assessments of the employment effects of environmental innovations, which are as such closely tied to the increased adoption of integrated…
After Phases I and II of the EU commissioned project concluded with a methodology for the evaluation of external costs and its implementation for selected EU member states, Phase III took to the further…
The subtask on "External Costs of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle and the Risk of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation" addresses an issue that has been neglected in the debate on external cost of energy so far. To assess the…
This study was centred around the assessment of non-compulsory, co-operative approaches as exemplified by the German industry´s "Erklärung der deutschen Wirtschaft zur Klimavorsorge". From a regulatory perspective…