In der aktuellen Debatte um eine grundlegende Reform des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland stehen Ansätze zur Reduzierung der Lohnkostenbelastung der Unternehmen im Vordergrund. Diskutiert werden insbesondere der Umbau des Sozialversicherungssystems und die Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes....

In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...

The German government introduced compulsory accident insurance for industrial firms in 1884. This insurance scheme was one of the main pillars of Bismarck's famous social insurance system. The accident-insurance system achieved only one of its intended goals: it successfully compensated workers...