Droht eine De-Institutionalisierung der repräsentativen Mitbestimmung und der Tarifautonomie? Dies besagt zumindest die auf dem Höhepunkt der „New Economy“-Euphorie populäre These, nach der die arbeitspolitischen Institutionen angesichts der neuen Organisationsmodelle der digitalen...

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...

We combine particular features of the German civil service with the unique event of German reunification to test the theory of precautionary savings and to quantify the importance of self-selection into occupations due to differences in risk aversion. In the presence of self-selection, failing...