study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked … reduces owners' capital investment - we find that granting formal control rights to workers raises capital formation. The … relations whereby shared governance raises capital by permitting workers to bargain over investment or by institutionalizing …

arise once specialized investment is made. Therefore, this paper investigates whether such agreements affect firm …-level investment. Based on the IAB Establishment Panel Survey 2001-2010 our estimates reveal that the adoption of a company-level pact … leads to a higher investment rate than in other firms driven by re-investment. However, the Great Recession has damped this …

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …

of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …

place in Germany, towards a more Anglo-American system in which a large proportion of transfers are paid to the working poor …

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case of Germany, no comparable study exists on …

unemployment in Germany, as well as several usually unobserved characteristics like personality traits, attitudes, expectations …