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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Introduction -- The Story of Sasha Dichter -- The Story of Mary Donnelly -- The Story of Betty Londergan -- The Story of Narayanan Krishnan -- The Story of the Salwen Family -- The Story of Smitty Pignatelli -- The Story of Cami Walker -- The Story of Samuel Stone -- The Story of Paul Wagner -- The Story of Petra Nemcova -- The Story of Reed Sandridge -- The Story of Elissa Montanti -- The Story of Leonard Abess -- The Story of Sal Dimisali -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Index of Names -- About the Author -- About Wisdom Publications.

"Die Effektivlöhne liegen oft beträchtlich über den Tariflöhnen. Die Tariflöhne sind also nicht bindend. Dennoch scheinen sie die Lohnentwicklung zu beeinflussen. Eine Erklärung für diesen paradoxen Sachverhalt wird vorgeschlagen, die der 'Fair Wage/Effort'-Hypothese von George Akerlof und Janet Yellen (1990) folgt. Es wird gezeigt, daß die Lohnspanne besonders groß ist, wenn die Bedeutung der Tariflöhne für die Lohnbildung auf Firmenebene sehr gering ist. Die ökonomischen Abläufe können mithin sehr sensibel auf die Einbeziehung 'nicht-ökonomischer' Faktoren reagieren." (Autorenreferat)

Article interviews former US Deputy Secretary of Defense and new President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, about world poverty, particularly in Africa. Reasons for the extensive poverty and possible solutions for it are discussed.

"Assistance isn't targeted to the farmers who need help. Farm policy should reflect a social value, the importance we attach to a rural America consisting of small and medium-sized farmers as well as large producers. "

We test whether generosity is related to political preferences and partisanship in Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States using incentivized dictator games. The total sample consists of more than 5,000 respondents. We document that support for social spending and redistribution is positively correlated with generosity in all four countries. Further, we show that donors are more generous towards co-partisans in all countries, and that this effect is stronger among supporters of left-wing political parties. All results are robust to the inclusion to an extensive set of control variables, including income and education.

Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects, with variable waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit levels, and asset tests, making intertemporal or international comparisons very difficult. Furthermore, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment, matter when assessing the generosity of different policies. In this article, we develop a new methodology to measure the generosity of unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with all characteristics of the complex unemployment insurance policy. Our model features heterogeneous agents that are liquidity constrained but can self-insure. We then build a second model, similar in all aspects but one: the unemployment insurance policy is one-dimensional (no waiting periods, eligibility limits, or asset tests, but constant benefits). We then determine which level of benefits in this second model makes society indifferent between both policies. We apply this measurement strategy to the unemployment insurance program of the United Kingdom.