Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor economics in particular. This paper provides scarce insider econometric evidence on the structure and...

Our paper contributes to the literature on executive successors other than the CEO by adding empirical evidence for CFO succession. We propose that the selection of outside successors may be contingent on the succession context and on the type of managerial role. We postulate that...

We use a large micro-dataset to assess the importance of intangible capital - organisation, R&D and ICT capital - for the economic performance of establishments and regions in Germany. In 2003 self-produced intangible capital accounted for more than one fifth of the total capital stock of...

We use a large micro-dataset to assess the importance of intangible capital - organisation, R&D and ICT capital - for the economic performance of establishments and regions in Germany. In 2003 self-produced intangible capital accounted for more than one fifth of the total capital stock of...

We use a large micro-dataset to assess the importance of intangible capital - organisation, R&D and ICT capital - for the economic performance of establishments and regions in Germany. In 2003 self-produced intangible capital accounted for more than one fifth of the total capital stock of...

Die Zahl der Freelancer hat in den letzten Jahren insbesondere in der IT-Branche und in der Medienbranche deutlich zugenommen. Damit verbunden sind Hinweise darauf, dass die spezifischen Rahmenbedingungen dieser Beschäftigungsform Konsequenzen für die Work-Life-Balance der Freelancer haben....

In der vorliegenden Studie wird der Einfluss von Betriebsräten auf das Angebot und die Finanzierung betrieblicher Weiterbildung untersucht. Anhand ökonometrischer Schätzungen mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels, Wellen 2003 bis 2009, wird zudem die Betriebsratswirkung auf die...

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

Zeitarbeit hat sich für die deutsche Wirtschaft zu einem wichtigen Flexibilisierungsinstrument entwickelt. Dem zunehmenden Mangel an neuen, qualifizierten Zeitarbeitnehmern kann auch in der Zeitarbeit durch die Qualifizierung bestehender Mitarbeiter begegnet werden. Auch wenn Weiterbildung oft...