The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...

Seit einigen Jahren wird an einer neuen Spielverordnung für die Unterhaltungsautomatenwirtschaft gearbeitet. Der politische Willensbildungsprozess zog sich bis Ende 2005 hin. Letzte Änderungen wurden Mitte Oktober verfügt. Besonders problematisch stellt sich für die Branche das unmittelbare...

We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient allocation of labor and properties of a decentralized equilibrium. An efficient allocation of labor...

In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...