Germany has the highest unemployment rate of older people in comparison to the average unemployment rate of all developed economies. Obviously older people face stronger difficulties to re-enter the labour…

In this article, we investigate the cost efficiency of German local governments in the state of Baden-Wu¨ rttemberg in 2004 using a stochastic frontier approach. Besides being the first study on German data,…

The number of schools that have access to computers and the internet has increased rapidly since the beginning of the nineties. However evidence of their effectiveness as pedagogical tools to acquire reading and…