The article examines the link between the office market and labour market in Germany. In a first step the number of office employees is calculated by referring to occupational labour market statistics. Using a panel analysis with data for the biggest five German metropolises it is shown that...

On efficiency grounds, a social contract can be justified if not only a person payments but also the funding of education is taken into account. By introducing a pay-as-you system, which is type of implicit social contract, each young generation can overcome its liquidity problems with regard to...