This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production locations of goods and services which require face-to-face contacts will continue to be concentrated in core cities of large agglomerations even in the Internet age...

Droht eine De-Institutionalisierung der repräsentativen Mitbestimmung und der Tarifautonomie? Dies besagt zumindest die auf dem Höhepunkt der „New Economy“-Euphorie populäre These, nach der die arbeitspolitischen Institutionen angesichts der neuen Organisationsmodelle der digitalen...