The labor market is often asserted to be characterized by rigidities that make it difficult for older workers to carry out their desired trajectory from work to retirement. An important source of rigidity is restrictions on hours of work imposed by firms that use team production or face high...

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

Using evidence from recent work on truckers and disaggregated older data prior researchers did not have, we revisit a classic topic and find some new answers. We focus on differentials in average annual earnings at the firm level among mileage-paid over-the-road tractor-trailer drivers ("road...

Zentrales Thema dieses Beitrags ist die Entwicklung neuer betrieblicher Lernkulturen. Theoretisches Lernen und Lernen am Arbeitsplatz werden gelegentlich als Alternativen diskutiert. Wenn man die "Employability" der Beschäftigten verbessern will, muss man jedoch beide Lernformen verknüpfen. In...