Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Produktivitätswirkungen von fünf unterschiedlichen Formen betrieblicher Zusatzleistungen analysiert. Als Datensatz wird das IAB-Betriebspanel aus dem Jahr 2000 verwendet. Im Ergebnis bestätigt diese Arbeit die Anreiztheorien, welche einen positiven...

We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...

This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity...

Kaldor hat verschiedene Hypothesen, die wirtschaftliches Wachstum erklären sollen und die Beziehungen zwischen Output, Beschäftigung und Produktivität im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe herstellen, diskutiert. Diese Ansätze werden anhand von Kreisdaten der Bundesländer Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen,...

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about...

Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...