"The Vocational and Career Psychology Service (BPS) of the German National Employment Agency has developed four new services for competence assessment. They can be used by job placement officers and case workers to better identify soft skills of their customers and use the results for job search...

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

"Längerfristige Beschäftigungsbeziehungen und betriebsinterne Teilarbeitsmärkte erfahren in diesem Beitrag zunächst eine vertragtheoretische Deutung: Explizite Arbeitsverträge werden ex ante in allgemeiner Form abgeschlossen, bevor ex post individuelle Arbeitsbeziehungen gestaltet werden....

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test experimentally whether individuals can avoid a head-to-head confrontation by means of coordinated strategies. In particular we analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance...

Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the takeover game in pairs consisting of a buyer and a seller. Understanding optimal play is very...