This paper analyses the productivity effects of five different types of employee benefits. The IAB establishment panel for the year 2000 is used as the data set. The results of the study largely confirm the incentive theories which assume that fringe benefits have a positive impact on a firm's...

Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

Der Beitrag befasst sich mit den zentralen schulrechtlichen Fragen vor dem Hintergrund der Corona-Pandemie im laufenden und im kommenden Schuljahr. Er behandelt dabei die rechtlichen Anforderungen an Schulschließungen nach dem Infektionsschutzgesetz (IfSG), die Schulpflicht,...