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In the present study we examined to what extent persons who attempt suicide describe their attempt in terms of social, joint processes. Psychotherapists interviewed 40 patients hospitalized in a general hospital for a few days after an attempted suicide. The content of the interviews was analyzed for the level of systemic processes the patients referred to (that is, action, project,...

We reconsider the evidence of Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2004, 2005) on the effectiveness of training programmes for the unemployed conducted in East and West Germany in the period 1993-1994 by investigating whether, and if so, how overall policy conclusions depend on the particular choice of the outcome variable. We find that different measures of employment and earnings provide...

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method from the area of operations research that measures the relationship of produced outputs to assigned inputs and determines an efficiency score. This efficiency score can be interpreted as a performance measure in investment analysis. Recent literature contains intensive discussion of using DEA to measure the performance of...

Immer häufiger unterstützen Versicherungsgesellschaften auch präventive Projekte gegen Elementarschäden, weil mit einer Zunahme schlimmer Naturereignisse gerechnet wird. Die vorbeugende Schadenprävention wird bisher aber noch häufig zu wenig genutzt, insbesondere im deutschsprachigen Raum fristet sie ein Schattendasein. Schadenregulierer sehen sich häufig mit vermeidbaren...