Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between plants that are or are not covered by collective...

The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....

The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the...

Im Rahmen der aktuellen umweltpolitischen und öffentlichen Diskussion der Auswirkungen der Verpackungsverordnung tritt die Frage der ökologischen Vorteilhaftigkeit von Getränkekartons zunehmend in den Vordergrund. Um in diesem Kontext den Weg für eine sachliche Bewertung des zukünftigen...