Interdisziplinäre Forschung (kurz: ID) wird zunehmend durch das Bereitstellen von Fördergeldern und das Einrichten von Organisationseinheiten gefördert. Die Auswertung von 35 leitfadengestützten qualitativen Interviews mit Forschenden in fünf deutschen Forschungsinstituten und fünf...

I quantify the importance of financial structure, labor market rigidities and industry mix for cross-country asymmetries in monetary transmission. To do so, I determine how closely the impulse responses to a monetary policy shock obtained from country-specific vectorautoregressive (VAR) models...

In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...

Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...