"According to the German Works Constitution Act, establishments whose workforces exceed certain thresholds have to release a certain number of members of their works councils from their regular work and enable them to work full time as works councillors. Using a full sample of all establishments...

"In der bisherigen Diskussion um die Beschäftigungseffekte des weltwirtschaftsinduzierten Strukturwandels in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wurde der Aspekt vernachlässigt, daß der Arbeitsmarkt segmentiert ist. Theoretische Überlegungen und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen weisen auf...

"Researchers in Germany have nowadays access to confidential micro data compiled from official statistics in a way that could not have been dreamt of just a few years ago. This paper describes the new institutions that grant data access - most importantly the research data centers located inside...

"This paper makes an empirical investigation of the effects of the German Disabled Persons Act on employment dynamics using data from the Federal Employment Agency and the IAB Establishment Panel. The data permit an investigation of the second threshold of this law, which in the observation...

"In Germany, there exist around 160 threshold values stating that certain labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size (usually defined by the number of employees). As crossing a threshold may result in additional costs for the firm, it is often hypothesized...

"In der bisherigen Diskussion um die Beschäftigungseffekte des weltwirtschaftsinduzierten Strukturwandels in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wurde der Aspekt vernachlässigt, daß der Arbeitsmarkt segmentiert ist. Theoretische Überlegungen und Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen weisen auf...

"This paper makes an empirical investigation of the effects of the German Disabled Persons Act on employment dynamics using data from the Federal Employment Agency and the IAB Establishment Panel. The data permit an investigation of the second threshold of this law, which in the observation...

"According to the German Works Constitution Act, establishments whose workforces exceed certain thresholds have to release a certain number of members of their works councils from their regular work and enable them to work full time as works councillors. Using a full sample of all establishments...

"In Germany, there exist around 160 threshold values stating that certain labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size (usually defined by the number of employees). As crossing a threshold may result in additional costs for the firm, it is often hypothesized...