is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …

determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …, the employment of guestworkers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives. The estimates imply that a 1 … percent increase in the employment of guestworkers is associated with a 0.4 percent decrease of severe accidents of natives. …

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …