Persistence in self-employment is crucial for entrepreneurial activities to generate long-term economic benefits. Consequently, this research examined the commitment of the self-employed towards their business as an important determinant of persistence. However, this research treats the...

According to the segmentation theory, low-skilled jobs belong to the secondary sector of the labour market. Low-skilled jobs do not require vocational training and workers are interchangeable. Therefore, workers in this sector have poor working conditions and are regularly affected by employment...

A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...

The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent occupation-specific demands explain the relationship between education and health. We concentrate on ergonomic, environmental, psychical, social and time demands. Merging the German Microcensus 2009 data with a dataset including detailed...

Analyzing prices of truly homogenous consumer goods sold in Euroland, we find significant price convergence after the Euro cash changeover in 2002. The deviation of national log prices from the mean log price of the same product is much narrower with the Euro than before. We observe Sigma and...

Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es zu untersuchen, wie die Einführung neuer Technologien mit der Arbeitsintensität, der Autonomie und den monotonen Aufgaben von Beschäftigten zusammenhängt. Weiterhin wird untersucht, ob und inwieweit der empirisch gut dokumentierte Zusammenhang zwischen diesen...

Innovative measurements in representative surveys are needed to draw meaningful conclusions about the prevalence of digital work and its consequences for employees' job demands and resources. Since the digitalization of work encompasses a variety of technological developments and possible...

We investigate sources of educational differences in smoking. Using a large German data set containing retrospective information on the age at smoking onset, we compare age-specific hazard rates of starting smoking between (future) low and high educated individuals. We and that up to 90% of the...

This study, based on the 2005 WSI Works Council Survey, aims to highlight the ramifications of company relocations on employees as well as the role of company relocation in the work of the works councils. The study is rounded off with an analysis of the policy framework, which looks at how...

Psychische Arbeitsbelastungen, besonders zunehmender Leistungsdruck, Stress und Mobbing, nehmen deutlich zu und rücken damit ins Blickfeld des Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes. Der Gesetzgeber hat 1996 mit dem auf Gesundheitsprävention erweiterten Arbeitsschutzgesetzt reagiert. Und trotzdem...