The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological…
This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ‘rigid’ in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled…
Labor market participation rates of West German females hav risen during the last decades,whereas participation rates of males hav declined or remained stable. Nevertheless,differences in aggregate gender…
Der Mangel an adäquaten Teilzeitarbeitsplätzen und die geringe Flexibilität der Arbeitszeiten gelten als Hemmschuh des Beschäftigungswachstums und der Wohlfahrt in Deutschland. Ziel dieser Studie ist es, die…