America’s higher education system is among the best in the world. Nevertheless, there is scope for improvement. In particular, there appear to be substantial financial barriers to higher education despite large government expenditures aimed at promoting access. Policy makers have proposed...

Unemployment in South Africa is extremely high and unevenly distributed, being concentrated among young less-skilled blacks. The legacies of apartheid can explain part of the increase in labour supply and inability of the economy to absorb it which produced the extreme levels of unemployment,...

While the German federal fiscal system has been successful in promoting a high standard of living even in regions whose economic capacity is low, tensions have emerged. <I>Firstly</I>, it has been difficult to ensure a sustainable fiscal policy, and the size of the overall deficit makes it difficult...</i>

The Chilean authorities plan to raise budgetary allocations over the medium term for a variety of social programmes, including education, health care and housing. This incremental spending will need to be carried out in a cost-efficient manner to make sure that it yields commensurate...

Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

The concept of "sustainability" deals with a moral concern. The pursuit of sustainability is aimed at building a society which is worth living in, now and in times to come. In this, two dimensions have to be considered: a longitudinal dimension of time spanning several generations, and a...

Der Begriff „Nachhaltigkeit“ formuliert ein moralisches Anliegen. Das Bemühen um Nachhaltigkeit zielt auf eine dauerhaft lebenswerte Gesellschaft. Hierbei sind zwei Dimensionen zu berücksichtigen: eine zeitliche Längsschnittdimension, die mehrere Generationen übergreift, und eine...

Frühe Förderung von Kindern und die Unterstützung von Familien sind Themenfelder,die in den letzten Jahren wachsende Aktualität und politische Aufmerksamkeitgewinnen. Angesichts steigender Anforderungen an eine Anhebung des allgemeinenBildungsniveaus einerseits und wachsender...

Vertreter der Politik, der Wirtschaft und der Wissenschaft, Lehrerverbände und Elternvereine scheinen sich einig, dass grundlegende Veränderungen an den deutschen Schulen unabdingbar seien. Eine Kernthese lautet, das deutsche Schulsystem sei zu starr, öffne sich zu wenig nach außen und...