Der Beitrag praesentiert in drei Teilen eine Bilanz von zwanzig Jahren. Zunaechst werden Zielsetzung und Inhalte der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ resuemiert, danach die Entwicklungen in der wissenschaftlichen Profession des Objektbereichs Industrielle Beziehungen aufgezeigt und...

Der Beitrag praesentiert in drei Teilen eine Bilanz von zwanzig Jahren. Zunaechst werden Zielsetzung und Inhalte der Zeitschrift „Industrielle Beziehungen“ resuemiert, danach die Entwicklungen in der wissenschaftlichen Profession des Objektbereichs Industrielle Beziehungen aufgezeigt und...

Using data from the German case, the paper examines a new form of client firms’ utilization of temporary agency work that is distinctly different from traditional forms responding to production problems. Client firms, particularly from manufacturing, increasingly use temporary agency workers...

Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...

Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...

This paper provides evidence that most German states (Laender) have unsustainable public finances by exploiting a newly compiled database covering the years 1950‐2011. Although the Laender are closely intertwined we are the first to apply “second generation” panel techniques that control...

We analyze the sustainability of public finances in the 16 states (Laender) of the Federal Republic of Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset covering the period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender and from 1991 to 2011 for East German Laender. As we apply unit root...