This paper discusses whether, in which respects, and to what extent the corporate governancesystems of Germany, the United Kingdom and France have already converged in the course ofEuropean economic integration, or are likely to converge in the foreseeable future. Wepresent, and attempt to...

Läßt man die Entwicklung des europäischen Leasingmarktes seit Einführung der Niederlassungs- und Dienstleistungsfreiheit im Rahmen der Umsetzung des gemeinsamen Europäischen Binnenmarktes Revue passieren, so sind entscheidende Änderungen in diesem Markt nicht zu konstatieren. Mit Blick auf...

Seit Mitte der 1980er Jahre ist das Beihilfenrecht aufgrund der Tätigkeit der Kommission und der Rechtsprechung der Gemeinschaftsgerichte stark fortentwickelt worden. ... Dies nimmt die Arbeit zum Anlass für eine erste Bewertung der Neuerungen und einen Ausblick auf allfällige weitere...

Das deutsche Arbeitsschutzrecht hat durch die Rechtssetzung der Europäischen Unionwichtige Impulse erfahren.(...)

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...

In this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980sin the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper relating to the UK.Data on random samples of twenty million US workers are examined taken from the BasicMonthly files of the CPS...

In this paper, I offer a theoretical explanation of the robust gender differences in educational achievement distributions of school children. I consider a one shot cheap talk game with two different types of senders (biased teachers and fair teachers), two types of receivers ("normal" and...

In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men andwomen. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. Thehypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatoryfirms by Black (1995) and an opportunity cost...

The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges,it is important to understand the impact of a worker's age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differently in the hiring process. ...