Die Autorinnen des Sammelbandes untersuchen die Verteilung von Arbeitsvolumina aus personalwirtschaftlicher Perspektive. Warum werden Überstunden geleistet, obwohl Arbeitslosigkeit herrscht? Wann werden Arbeitsvolumina unter Vertragsformen wie Telearbeit, Zeitarbeit oder geringfügiger...

Reputation indexes of employment protection have proven popular constructs in studies of the covariation of labor market institutions and macroeconomic outcomes. Portugal occupies an unenviable rank order in such measures of the stringency of employment protection. We critique this reputation in...

This paper analyzes the dynamic effects of different macroeconomic shocks on unemployment in Germany. In a first step, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two long run relationships, interpreted as a labor demand and a wage...