Based on a cohort of establishments from the IAB Establishment Panel which hired their first employee in 1995/96, this … paper analyzes potential determinants of the survival and employment growth of these newly founded firms until the year 2003 … between an establishment’s start size and its employment growth as well as higher probabilities of survival for establishments …

Works councils are the most important pillar of workplace industrial relations in Germany but little is known of their …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …

-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …

Germany and asks the personnel managers about their expectations concerning employment adjustments. We find that employment … larger the expected reduction in employment. Employment adjustments are more pronounced in those industries and plants which … works council. In contrast, employment is not found to increase if the minimum wage is reduced by about 10 percent. This …