Prof. Dr. Michael Adams, Universität Hamburg, kommentiert das Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofes, das Unternehmen ermöglicht, ausländische Rechtsformen zu wählen und dann deren Sitz nach Deutschland zu verlegen.

"Against the background of theoretical considerations and available empirical studies, the expected effects of the amendment to the Law on Labour Relations at the Workplace (Betriebsverfassungsgesetz) are discussed. The various basic conditions are shown under which more positive or more...

"In particular due to decisions made by the European Court of Justice, but also as a consequence of a serious malfunctioning, the German model of codetermination has once again become the subject of controversial debate. The costs of codetermination are considerable. These face returns that are...

"The first main part of the article summarises empirical findings on the relevant dimensions of the reorganisation of work processes and company organisations. The 'new management concepts' are introduced as well as their objectives with regard to the rearrangement of organisation issues and the...

"The first main part of the article summarises empirical findings on the relevant dimensions of the reorganisation of work processes and company organisations. The 'new management concepts' are introduced as well as their objectives with regard to the rearrangement of organisation issues and the...

"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 FDZ Methodenreport describes the files and variables containing the person and establishment effects estimated by Card, Heining, and Kline 2013 and how this information may be combined with several of the data products available at the research Data Center (FDZ) of the German Federal...

"Economic integration typically goes along with a disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring. The consequences of foreign direct investments (FDI) especially for the labour market are an issue of ongoing debate. The countries of origin fear job losses. However, a range of...

"Providing scientific use files for business surveys is a difficult task. Due to smaller populations, higher sampling rates, and skewed distributions disclosure risks are much higher than for household surveys. Simple measures like coarsening are not sufficient to protect the data. The aim of...

"Im IAB wird derzeit die Anonymisierbarkeit von Paneldaten zur Erstellung von Scientific-Use-Files untersucht. Dabei wurden mithilfe der Multiplen Imputation synthetische Datensätze der Erhebungswelle 2007 des IAB-Betriebspanels erzeugt. Dieses Vorgehen stellt sicher, dass einerseits einzelne...