I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The results indicate that the effects differ significantly between works council relationship types in a...

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

Zwei Instrumente stehen im Mittelpunkt der Krisen, in denen Opel, Arcandor und andere große Unternehmen staatliche Hilfe suchen oder gesucht haben: Kredite und Bürgschaften. Vergibt der Staat einen Kredit, so ist es offensichtlich, dass er dafür seine Verschuldung erhöhen muss. Um sie...