Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert die Wirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems auf das Arbeitsangebot verheirateter Frauen. Er beruht auf einem umfassenden mikroanalytischen Simulationsmodell für Steuern, Sozialversicherungsbeiträge und Transfers für die Bundesrepublik...

Summary Since Germany’s social assistance reform (“Hartz-IV-Reform”) in 2005 there has been a strong increase in the number of working poor and long-term unemployed. This development is often attributed to the remaining disincentives of the reformed social assistance to take up a low-paid...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connection between labour supply and the wages of married women of different ages in Toronto using data from the 2010 Labour Force Survey of Canada. Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ three econometric techniques,...

A detailed review of the functions being played by the component and parts suppliers for Japan's automobile, consumer products and industrial products firms. In addition, a similar function is reviewed—that being played by the employment subcontractors in process industries such as steel mills...

Impressions garnered from a six week teaching spell in China suggest that expanding capacity is causing problems in production flow and inventory organisation. Inadequate databases contribute to excess inventories and ineffective materials, labour and equipment management. Production managers...

Purpose Cross-section data suggest that the relationship between age and hourly earnings is an inverted U shape. Evidence from panel data does not necessarily confirm this finding suggesting that older workers may not experience a reduction in earnings at the end of their working life. The paper...

Purpose The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational and spatial shortages in the labor market. The purpose of this paper is to study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by...

The widespread recognition that the UK is very short of skilled manpower, particularly in the information technology field calls for urgent measures. The article outlines a practical scheme for developing and upgrading young people in the middle ability band — the people who have been...