This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute's Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

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...

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National...

The aim of this study is to evaluate employees' productivity in relation to their contract status. This study uses (a) survey data collected among manufacturing sector firms, having more than 15 employees, in Cameroon between April and May 2006 and (b) information issued by the National...

Befristung als Form der Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung - Arbeitsmarkttheoretische Überlegungen zur befristeten Beschäftigung - Befristete Beschäftigung und der Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen - Hypothesen - Daten, Variablen und Methoden - Verbreitungsgrad und Charakteristika...

We investigate how the incompleteness of an employment contract - discretionary and non-contractible effort - can affect an employer's decision about cutting nominal wages. Using matched employer-employee payroll data from Great Britain, linked to a survey of managers, we find support for the...