The 2008 financial crisis marked the beginning of a prolonged and ongoing period of extreme economic turbulence that has created multiple challenges for both governments and national systems of labour administration. Difficult economic conditions are encouraging a reevaluation of established...

This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

This book broadens the research on the underworld of precarious and not-represented workers, through a selection of original case studies from across the globe written by leading experts. The book unveils the working conditions affecting this vast labour force that is so important to capital...

Die deutsche Konjunktur wird sich nach einem schwachen Winterhalbjahr im Verlauf des Jahres 2013 beleben. Darauf deutet das ifo Geschäftsklima hin, das sich in den vergangenen Monaten auf einem überdurchschnittlichen Niveau stabilisiert hat. Sofern die Eurokrise nicht erneut massiv eskaliert,...