Die globale Wirtschaftskrise hinterlässt ihre Spuren zunehmend auch auf den internationalen Arbeitsmärkten. Angesichts dramatischer Nachfrageeinbrüche auf den globalen Märkten für Güter und Dienstleistungen stehen Produktionskapazitäten und damit die Beschäftigung in den meisten...

We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. We find that part of this wage gap is due to differences in...

Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility amongst the employed. The 1999 rise in the French Delalande tax, paid by large private firms when they laid off workers aged over 50, produced an exogenous rise in job...

We investigate how internal labor markets (ILMs) affect labor adjustments and performance in business groups. We show that group-affiliated units faced with positive shocks to growth opportunities rely on the ILM to ensure swift hiring, especially of managers and other high-skilled workers. A...