Betriebsräte sind täglich gefordert viele Dokumente, Informationen oder Daten zu verarbeiten. In der modernen Bürokommunikation bedeutet dies vor allem der ständige Umgang mit Dateien aller Art. Der Gesamtbetriebsrat Mahle versendet zusammen mit seinen Fachausschüssen etwa 800 Dateien pro...

Durch die immensen Fortschritte bei der Digitaltechnik sind nahezu beliebig hohe Specherkapazitäten und weltumspannende Netzwerke selbstverständlich geworden. Der weitere Ausbau der Netzwerke zu Hochgeschwindigkeits-Grids ermöglicht neue Formen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens, die unter...

This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual dissolution. To this end we adopt an...

This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

This paper investigates the effect of uncertainty on the volatility of the Mexican peso U.S. dollar exchange rate for the period 1999 - 2018. The empirical analysis consists on estimating a model by OLS and System GMM that includes measures of economic, political, and financial uncertainty, both...