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I analyze the skill and age structure of commuters in 14 EU countries. Theory implies that commuters can be either more or less able than stayers, but are always less able than migrants and that they are also always older than migrants but younger than stayers. Empirically all types of commuters are younger and have higher education than non-commuters. Internal commuters are better educated and younger than cross-border commuters, education decreases while age increases with distance commuted and recent migrants are younger but also more highly educated than commuters.

Myebs.de is a software platform developed by students studying information systems at the German university of European Business School (ebs) in Oestrich-Winkel. The course challenges IT students to develop real-life software solutions to the university''s own internal community information needs. As in open source software development, the best solution is then integrated into the existing platform. Because of the team work that is necessary in this course, a considerable growth in interpersonal skills is fostered. As with OSS in general, "maintainability" can be an issue.

We investigate the relative contributions of migrant and native households to welfare states. Using two step Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions that control for selection into benefit take-up, we are able to identify the individual variables contributing to differences in welfare receipt by native and migrant households. We find that most of the differences are explained by observable characteristics such as size of the household as well as age and education of its head and income in some countries. In contrast, significantly lower net contributions of migrant households to the state budget persist in many countries even after controlling for observable factors. The reasons for this are primarily lower tax payments of migrant households. Selective migration and sound integration policies and as well as policies avoiding marginalization of migrants in informal labor markets are therefore the most effective means to avoid fiscal burdens of migration.

Bezienswaardigheden en cultuurhistorische wetenswaardigheden, met veel aandacht voor landschaps- en stedenschoon van de zuidamerikaanse staat.

This paper offers an empirical analysis of net job creation patterns at the firm level for the Austrian economy between 1993 and 2013 focusing on the impact of firm size and age. We propose a new estimation strategy based on a two-part model. This allows to identify the structural parameters of interest and to decompose behavioral differences between exiting and surviving firms. Our findings suggest that conditional on survival, young Austrian firms experience the largest net job creation rates. Differences in firm size are not able to explain variation in net job creation rates among the group of continuing enterprises. Job destruction induced by market exit, however, is largest among the young and small firms with this effect being even more pronounced during the times of the Great Recession. In order to formulate sensible policy recommendations, a separate treatment of continuing versus exiting firms as proposed by the new two-part model estimation approach seems crucial.

"Lies und ahne"

Das Vorliegende ist ein Experiment. Es gilt zu prüfen:Gibt es das Wort, das erlösende?Gibt es den Satz, den zusammenhängenden?Gibt es die Schönheit, die hieraus entstehende?