We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...

This paper examines the socio-demographic disparities evident in the early labour market response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Austria, relying on the register-based labour market career dataset from the Austrian Micro Data Center (AMDC) for the 2018-2021 period. The analysis focuses on the...

Ideenreichtum, Flexibilität und Agilität - klassische Charakteristika von KMU - sind in einer globalisierten Welt nicht nur erforderlich, sondern werden belohnt. Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sind damit in einer guten Position sich der Globalisierung zu stellen und davon zu profitieren....

Based on their ability to facilitate interdependencies across the borders of national and regional markets, multinationals enterprises (MNEs) act as the key drivers of world trade and investment activities. While recent global challenges additionally highlight the need to explain and assess the...