In this project we will pursue the goals that were set in the first part of the DFG-project. It includes a detailed comparison of financing terms for small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany and the USA. To…
The recent interest in the economics of crime has been stimulated by the serious increase in crime rates in the western world on the one hand, and by recent demographic and socio-economic problems like youth…
The project´s aim is to establish and maintain a user-friendly modelling toolbox for the analysis of macroeconomic effects from labour market policy. Thus, besides our concern with consistent macroeconomic…
The European Union is facing significant challenges with progressing monetary and economic integration, EU enlargement and increasing integration of the world economy. Against this background, the project analyses…
The TAB study under the heading of "Work and the Environment" aims at: -assessing developments in research, -providing an overview (comparison and evaluation of various approaches, methods, results) of existing…
The accession to the European Union is often regarded as the last hurdle to be overcome in the transformation process of the Central and Eastern European states. Ten years after the demise of their planned…
In addition to the competition of European tax schemes, current discussion increasingly centres around the competition of social security systems. This subject addresses the financial restrictions as well as the…
The goal of this project is to examine the determinants and employment impact of firm foundations and self-employment from theoretical and empirical viewpoints. In the theoretical part we will devise a model in…