Klappentext: Auch drei Jahrzehnte nach der deutsch-deutschen Vereinigung gilt die Tarif-, Lohn- und Leistungspolitik der DDR weitgehend als »black box«. Robert Hinke widmet sich diesem Forschungsdesiderat am Beispiel der Metall- und Elektroindustrie historisch-soziologisch und zeichnet die...

This research seeks to explain changes in labor relations, the emergence of new forms of employment and its effects on unionism in the period between 1975 and 2010 in Chile. This research take into account the changes in the world of work, especially the phenomenon of labor precariousness, and...

The topic of the dissertation is the relationship between knowledge spillovers and firms' likelihood to co-operate on R&D and innovation activities. The analysis contains two parts: A review of relevant theoretical and empirical literature and an empirical part that analyses the relationship...