Gewerkschaften sind einflussreiche Akteure, die das Leben einer Vielzahl von Menschen mitbestimmen. Dennoch befinden sie sich seit längerer Zeit in der Krise. Die Mitglieder, die sie jährlich verlieren, könnten ganze Fußballstadien füllen. Und dies, obwohl die Gewerkschaften in Deutschland...

Ida Altmann-Bronn gehörte zu den prominenten Köpfen der deutschen Gewerkschafts- und proletarischen Frauenbewegung in der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Aufgewachsen in der ostpreußischen Provinz und ausgebildet im russischen St. Petersburg, kam sie 1890 nach Berlin und schloss sich der...

This paper proposes to exploit a reform in legal rules of corporate governance to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. In particular, we refer to a major shift in the legal and institutional environment, the reform of the German joint-stock...

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of cartelisation and managerial incentives on the productive efficiency of German coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic frontier analysis and an unbalanced dynamic panel data set...

In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...

This paper reviews the German miners' model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation in 1923. Its core feature was the provision of cash benefits for compensation of income losses due to temporary sickness and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner....

Was the 18th century a time period of gradual market integration? Or did the wars, famines, and criminality drive central European markets away from each other? We perform cointegration tests between four German and three Polish cities for rye markets in the 18th century, plus selected tests...