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 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…
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…
The main aim of the project was to improve the theoretical and empirical understanding of the interdependency between education, innovation and the labour market. The firm level data of the Mannheim innovation…