Die Sicherung von Beschäftigung, die Verbesserung der Arbeitsbedingungen und der Wandel der Unternehmensorganisation sind wichtige Themen für die Arbeitnehmervertretungen in den Betrieben in allen europäischen Ländern. In Deutschland haben die Betriebsräte in den vergangenen Jahren viele...

This paper develops an indicator that combines the area that residents can reach within a certain time of travel with population density to create a proxy for “accessibility”, i.e. access to employment and consumption opportunities. Using a large scale firm level dataset, with nearly one...

This study provides empirical evidence for the economic rationality of wage rigidities. Theoretically wage rigidities can result from contracts, implicit contracts, from efficiency wages and from insider-outsider behaviour. Based on a survey of 801 firms strong support has been found for...