"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Das Inkrafttreten des SGB II am 1.1.2005 bringt umfangreiche Änderungen des Arbeitsmarktgeschehens in Deutschland mit sich. Deren wissenschaftliche Begleitung wird vom IAB als eine der wichtigsten kommenden Herausforderungen an die Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung betrachtet. Die Darstellung...

"This paper analyses the productivity effects of five different types of employee benefits. The IAB establishment panel for the year 2000 is used as the data set. The results of the study largely confirm the incentive theories which assume that fringe benefits have a positive impact on a firm's...

"The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

"The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

"Flexibility and heterogeneity are important topics in labour market research. Since 2004 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has funded a research network addressing the issue of 'Flexibility in Heterogeneous Labour Markets', which intends to uncover possibilities for fostering...

"Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

"Labour market reforms that are designed to stimulate labour supply at the lower end of the wage distribution can never be precisely restricted to affect only the target group. Spillovers to and feedback from other segments of the labour market are unavoidable and may counteract the direct...

Nach den aktuellen Ergebnissen des ifo Investitionstests wollen die Unternehmen des deutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbes 2014 ihre Investitionen um rund 9% erhöhen. Für das Jahr 2013 ergaben die Meldungen der Testteilnehmer einen Anstieg von 3%. Erweiterungsinvestitionen und Investitionen in...

Die ifo Investorenrechnung liefert jährliche Investitionsmatrizen, die Aufschluss über den Anteil einzelner Gütergruppen an den Investitionen eines Wirtschaftszweigs geben. Neben dem gängigen Eigentümerkonzept bietet zudem eine Darstellung von Investitionszeitreihen nach dem Nutzerkonzept,...