This study analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and labor productivity. It reveals the performance gains due to different combinations of these systems. It...

Angesichts der derzeit hohen Arbeitslosigkeit ist eine Lohnpolitik, die das Beschäftigungsziel nicht gefährdet, besonders dringlich. Mit welcher Rate sollten die Löhne wachsen? Der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung gibt seine lohnpolitischen...

In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

If individuals reveal their preference as consumers, then they are taken seriously. What happens if individuals, as employees, reveal their preferences in working hours? And what happens if there is a misalignment between actual hours worked and preferred hours, the so-called work hours...

In light of the trend towards the Anglo-Saxon model of structured PhD education we analyze whether the positive relation between supervisor research productivity and young researcher productivity does persist in research groups where several PhD and postdoctoral students are supervised by a team...

Kaldor hat verschiedene Hypothesen, die wirtschaftliches Wachstum erklären sollen und die Beziehungen zwischen Output, Beschäftigung und Produktivität im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe herstellen, diskutiert. Diese Ansätze werden anhand von Kreisdaten der Bundesländer Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen,...