Within a laboratory experiment we investigate a principal-agent game in which agents may,first, self-select into a group task (GT) or an individual task (IT) and, second, choose workeffort. In their choices of task and effort the agents have to consider pay contracts for bothtasks as offered by...

Die Deutsche Post AG hat mit der Unterzeichnung des Tarifvertrages Nr. 462/463zum 1.9.1994 mit der Deutschen Postgewerkschaft vereinbart, durch die Einführungvon Gruppenarbeit im Zustelldienst neue Arbeitsformen zu erproben. Die Erprobungumfaßt mit dem 5-Tage-Modell (Rolli-Modell), dem...

Der vorliegende Text ist die erweiterte Fassung eines Vortrags, den der Autor im Rahmen eines Workshops im ISFMünchen gehalten hat. Der Workshop fand am 13. und 14. Februar 2003 statt und hatte den Titel „Empirische Befundezur Arbeitskraftunternehmer-These“. Dies ist zugleich der Arbeitstitel...

During the 1980s and 1990s, the Netherlands experienced a strong increase in the labourforce participation of women. This study investigates the increase of participation over thesuccessive generations of women, and produces an educated guess for future participation.For this purpose, we...

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkablywell in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simplerank-size rule known as Zipf´s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is thechurning of industries...

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

Using firm level data on 70,000 enterprises in 107 countries, this paper finds importanteffects of access to finance, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent,infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at the firm level. The paperfocuses on how the impact...

The aim of the current paper is to estimate the need for new PhDs in the Estonian academicsector for the 5-year period 2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities,institutions of applied higher education and research institutes. The doctoral workforce in allcountries around the...