The commercial cleaning industry is characterized by a high proportion of labour costs and a pronounced comparability and standardization of services. The statistical preconditions for the evaluation have not been ideal which is mainly due to the high proportion of part-time work and mini-jobs....

In den letzten 25 Jahren hat in Westdeutschland die Arbeitslosigkeit kontinuierlich zugenommen. In der vorliegenden Studie wird eine Ursache des Anstiegs von Arbeitslosigkeit untersucht: Die Arbeitslosigkeit Älterer beim Übergang vom Erwerbsleben in den Ruhestand. Zunächst werden anhand...

From the end of the Second World War onwards, a middle class emerged in Germany that was, by international standards, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the result of collective agreement on a high coverage...