Temporary agency work and outsourcing to a service contractor are two forms of alternative work arrangements with …

literature on incentives. For participants who roll the die, the experiment can be seen as a tool to randomly assign an incentive …

tests the hypotheses derived by exploiting the introduction of a "fresh start" policy in Germany in 1999 as a natural …

incentives for lower income classes and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on … annual income concepts. This paper analyzes how work incentives inherent in the German tax-benefit system evolve when … incentives increased even more than short-term work incentives. Particularly for middle-income individuals, this is largely …

actually favors stabilization. In an empirical analysis for Germany, the paper adds support for the finding of significant … regional stabilization by fiscal flows. The results indicate that about 17 % of GDP variation across West Germany's states has … been removed by fiscal flows during the last two decades. Thus, in Germany where the fiscal federalism is criticised for …

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …