"Using two nationally representative establishment data sets, this paper investigates collective bargaining coverage and firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both countries have experienced a substantial decline...

"Using two nationally representative establishment data sets, this paper investigates collective bargaining coverage and firms' choice of governance structures for the employment relationship in Britain and in (western and eastern) Germany. Both countries have experienced a substantial decline...

"On the one side the success of the IAB Establishment Panel Survey can be traced to the high response rate and the excellent data quality necessary for panel analyses as well as the unique possibility to use the establishment register of the Employment Statistics of the Federal Employment Agency...

"This study uses recent data taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002-2006) to evaluate the extent of and heterogeneity in returns to tenure for men in eastern and western Germany, employed in both the private and the public sector. We find significantly different wage patterns in...

Stellt der Tarifabschluss für Arbeiter und Angestellte von Bund und Kommunen einen Beitrag zum Einstieg in eine umfassende Neustrukturierung des öffentlichen Dienstes dar, oder wurde vor allem an den bisherigen alten Strukturen des öffentlichen Dienstes festgehalten? Für Dr. Thomas Böhle,...

Aufgrund der demographischen Entwicklung wird sich der Personalbedarf im öffentlichen Dienst in den kommenden Jahren deutlich reduzieren zum einen wegen der Schrumpfung der Bevölkerung, zum anderen aber auch wegen der Alterung, die insbesondere im Schulbereich, in der Polizei und in der Justiz...

"This paper summarizes the findings of studies which investigate the determinants of wages in Germany, using data of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analyses apply least squares estimates as well as the estimators developed by Altonji and Shakotko, Rev. Econ. Stud. 54, 437...

"The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

"The financial crisis drew attention to the way in which workers in certain countries had been able to sustain consumption through housing and consumer credit despite insecure labour-market positions. This indicates a need to expand the analysis of the relationship between flexibility and...

"Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist das 'Flexibilisierungs-Paradoxon', das auf der empirischen Beobachtung beruht, daß sich die Teilzeitbeschäftigung in den 60er Jahren weitgehend ohne staatliches Zutun ausdehnte, aber gerade seit der massiv vorangetriebenen Flexibilisierungsoffensive in den 80er...