"In light of Germany´s transition approaches towards a sustainable energy system this paper examines differences of employment structure and wage differentials between renewable energy establishments and their sector peers. To do so, we have developed a novel data set by linking company-level...

"Internships are understood as a bridge into scarce employment by young job entrants or students. Using the IAB Establishment Panel, we discovered 600,000 internships in 300,000 firms. The use of internships differs significantly between sectors. They are frequently used in the sale and retail...

"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...

"The Swiss mass apprenticeship system is market based. The share of training firms as a percentage of all firms is therefore an indicator which receives much public attention. The share of training firms declined markedly from 1985 to 2001, dropping from 24.7 to 17.6%. This has often been...

"This article uses the total population of firms, as contained in the Employee History ('Beschäftigten-Historik') of the IAB, to analyse the dynamics of employment in establishments of different size classes. This analysis is therefore the first of its kind to include all economic sectors for...

Seit 1984, als das "40-Stunden-Tabu" der Arbeitgeber durch lange Streiks gebrochen war, ist die tarifliche Arbeitszeit im verarbeitenden Gewerbe um zwei Stunden pro Woche reduziert worden. Dem Beispiel der Metall- und Druckindustrie, die als erste die 38,5-Stunden-Woche vereinbarten, sind nach...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die Innovationsforschung im ifo-Institut und beschreibt die Hauptmerkmale des ifo-Innovationstests. Außerdem zeigt er einige Ergebnisse aus den Innovationserhebungen der vergangen zehn Jahre. Sie zeigen, daß sich von 1979-1989 die Innovationsdynamik der...

Der Bericht beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen des Bayerischen Mittelstandskreditprogramms. Die Umfrage des ifo Instituts zu diesem Thema hat gezeigt, daß die Förderprogramme der LfA rege nachgefragt wurden. Bei der Förderung von Existenzgründungen erfreuen sich die ERP-Programme, in...

"An outstanding significance for labour market and employment policy is attached to the expansion of part-time employment, whether it is in the sense of a defensive strategy to redistribute the available volume of working hours or in the context of an active, more growth-orientated labour market...