We study an overlapping generations model of human capital accumulation with threshold effects using regional data for West Germany. Our basic goal is to shed light on what makes German regions grow. The paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal distribution. Thus, application of the threshold model to a real world case, here West Germany, shows...

Corpo3:ate Social Reporting from a Theoretical • Concept to Regular Business Information ? Some thoughts on recent developments in Germany The paper reviews European developments in corporate social reporting, with special emphasis on the West German experience. Approaches to social reporting being used by German businesses are described, and results of an extensive survey on socially relevant ...

Analysis in terms of the two-sector open economy shows that in bringing the market economy to East Germany, West Germany seems to have disregarded important fundamentals. Premature formation of a currency union led to a substantial real appreciation of the East German currency. Premature implementation of the West German system of wage bargaining resulted in inappropriate minimum wage schedules...

Universiteit van Amsterdam,.· Amsterdam, Netherlands M. 1. T., Cambridge, Mass., USA University of California, Berkeley, Calif., USA University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Tel-Aviv Uillversity, TeicAviy,)sraei Universitiit Regensburg, Re.gensburg, West-Germany Freie Universitiit Berlin, Berlin, West-Germany Unive.rsity of Cambridge, Cambridge, England AcademieR. S. Roumaine, Bucarest, Rumani...

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory betweenand within-group components as well as an “overlappi...

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Hietzing, Vienna, Austria; Interventional Cardiology, Clı́nico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,...

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Hietzing, Vienna, Austria; Interventional Cardiology, Clı́nico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,...

The unification of the West and East Germany has provided an interesting natural experiment for studying the relationship between legal and extra-legal factors and drinkingdriving crash rates. Prior to unification, both countries had differing drinking-driving legislation and BAC limits. In the former West Germany, the penal code did not allow driving under the influence of alcohol and other dr...

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of major social changes in Germany since 1989 on mortality due to intentional injury. Mechanisms and types of fatal intentional injury in East and West Germany between 1970 and 1995 were determined from death certificates and compared with judicial data on violent crime convictions and recent public survey data on citizen fear of crime. The ...