Causes and Consequences
Interdisciplinary investigation on the interactions between crime, economic performance and social exclusion With the results of empirical research on the basis of international panel data sets Includes supplementary material: sn. pub/extras
The peristence of European unemployment stands in striking contrast to the cyclical pattern of unemployment in the US. Many people attribute the rise in European unemployment to increased imbalances between the pattern of labour demand and supply - in other words, to greater mismatch, but existing mismatch indicators do not support this view. However, the obvious inference is not legitimate because the evidence is based on trended data, and thus gives rise to spurious statistical results. To get around the problem, the author uses the dynamic flow approach to structural unemployment and disaggregated data. The reader will find new results on „non-spurious“ mismatch tendencies, occupational reallocation, the matching of apprentices, and the importance of matching and mobility for wage differentials.
Rechnen sich Freiheitsstrafen? Hierzu führten die Autoren eine bundesweite Feldstudie Fragebögen von ca. 1.800 Inhaftierten in rund 30 Haftanstalten, Auskünfte der Anstaltsleiter und von ca. 1.200 Personen aus einer ergänzenden Bevölkerungsbefragung. Zusammen mit einer umfangreichen Analyse von anstalts- und länderspezifischem Datenmaterial liegt hier eine – in diesem Umfang – bisher einzigartige Evaluation des deutschen Strafvollzugs vor.