In Germany, the employment response to the post-2007 crisis has been muted compared toother industrialized countries …. Despite a large drop in output, employment has hardlychanged. In this paper, we analyze the determinants of German firms … works councils. Second, on the basis of theseestimates, we use the difference between predicted and actual employment as a …

an employment boom in the construction sector, in others theshare of employment in this sector did not significantly …

Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often …

imposed by firms that use team productionor face high fixed costs of employment... …

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different …

Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, thispaper tests the “jack … selfemployedand those ending up in paid employment.... …