Angesichts der Ausweitung des Leiharbeitseinsatzes, der zum Teil mit negativen Folgen für die Arbeitnehmer verbunden sein kann, suchen Gewerkschaften nach Moeglichkeiten zur ‚Humanisierung’ der Leiharbeit. Eine bislang wenig beachtete Alternative zur Leiharbeit stellt dabei die sog....

In der empirischen Arbeitsmarktforschung spielt der Staat als Arbeitgeber bislang eine eher untergeordnete Rolle. Die Tatsache, dass die Geltung eines Tarifvertrags und die Existenz eines Betriebs- bzw. Personalrats integraler Bestandteil des oeffentlichen Dienstes sind, muss bei einem Vergleich...

Der Beitrag geht zum einen der Frage nach, ob es Unterschiede in der personalpolitischen Ausrichtung der marktbestimmten Dienstleistungen im Vergleich zum verarbeitenden Gewerbe gibt, die nicht durch strukturelle Faktoren wie die Zusammensetzung der Betriebe und die Struktur der Belegschaft zu...

In September 2002, a new market in "Economic Derivatives" was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of the prices of these options. We find that market-based measures of expectations are similar to...

In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in the period 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlands and the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within...

Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour mobility, it may have important effects for labour markets by increasing the mobility of jobs. This creates both opportunities through exports and threats from imports. Is there...

In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...

Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...

We examine a common market which expands by integrating new regions. Capitalists are strategically interdependent through the goods market and they improve their productivity through R&D. Production and R&D employ unionized workers. The purpose of integration is to maximize a weighed average of...

In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring cost and constant returns of labor, the bargaining...