Es war erwartet worden, dass die Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns Arbeitsplätze vernichten wird. Noch ist unklar, ob und gegebenenfalls in welchem Ausmaß dies der Fall ist. Die vorliegenden Daten lassen klare Aussagen nicht zu. Die Zahl der Minijobs ist aber deutlich gesunken...

Wage subsidies and public transfers for the unemployed as a means for increasing employment have been intensively discussed in Germany. The paper explains which models have already been applied. In addition, it describes some recent reform proposals and analyzes what economic policy might be...

Introduction and Aims Entrepreneurship and the business environment, in general, are being influenced by the existence of formal and informal institutions. This study focuses on the negative versus positive perceptions of Moroccan, Chinese, and German entrepreneurs to formal and informal...

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eight labour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hours using a new panel data set. For...