Die deutsche Wirtschaft bleibt weiter auf Expansionskurs. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt wird im Jahr 2017 um gut 1 ½ Prozent und im Jahr 2018 um 1 ¾ Prozent zulegen. Dabei bremst in diesem Jahr die geringere Anzahl an Arbeitstagen die gesamtwirtschaftliche Leistung. Die konjunkturelle...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the flexibility opportunities of firms to respond to increasing labour market requirements and heterogeneity. Thereby, we focus on two groups of workers and two kinds of management events. The two groups of workers are female and older workers, while...

This contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...