Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

Vor dem Hintergrund schwieriger Innovationsbedingungen insbeson dere in kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) einerseits, häufig schwach ausgeprägter Mitbestimmungs strukturen in KMU andererseits, geht die Studie der These nach, dass zwischen Innovation und Interessenvertre tung positive...

Die Befragung sollte einen ersten Eindruck davon vermitteln, wie die Umsetzung tariflicher Abweichungen vom Flächentarifvertrag in der Praxis bewertet werden. Angesichts eines nach wie vor vom Flächentarifvertrag dominierten Systems industrieller Beziehungen interessierte v.a. die Praxis...

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...