"Organizational change is characterized by different measures of business policy, work organization and personnel policy, e.g. delayering, teamwork, job-rotation, further training and education, incentive payment and flexible working time. These measures work both, alone and in combination, on...

"Organizational change is characterized by different measures of business policy, work organization and personnel policy, e.g. delayering, teamwork, job-rotation, further training and education, incentive payment and flexible working time. These measures work both, alone and in combination, on...

The paper focuses on the social safety nets in Russian Federation and Ukraine in the view of changes on the labour market since the beginning of economic transition. We showed that many past phenomena (e.g. restructuring of the economy, wage and pension arrears, new groups at-risk-of-poverty,...

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

Nearly one-third of all American workers are paid very low wages, the highest rate among wealthy nations. An incidence of low pay at this level has obvious implications for the current standard of living for a substantial share of American families. But of particular concern are the implications...

Empirische Studien finden oft keine negativen Beschäftigungseffekte branchenbezogener Mindestlöhne. Ulrich van Suntum, Universität Münster, zeigt jedoch, dass eine Betrachtung der Beschäftigungsentwicklung in der jeweiligen Mindestlohnbranche zu kurz greift. So kommt es bei unelastischer...

Der Beitrag nutzt zwei verschiedene Datensätze zur Struktur der Arbeitsverdienste in Deutschland – das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienststruktur­erhebung – um den Anteil der Beschäftigten zu ermitteln, die von dem im Koalitionsvertrag beschlossenen Mindestlohn betroffen wären....