This paper proposes a new measure of skills mismatch that combines information about skill proficiency, self-reported mismatch and skill use. The theoretical foundations underling this measure allow identifying minimum and maximum skill requirements for each occupation and to classify workers...

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

Seit geraumer Zeit werden die Auswirkungen der Geschäftsaktivitäten von weltweit tätigen Unternehmen (Transnational Corporations, TNCs) auf Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländer kontrovers diskutiert. Im Gefolge der Globalisierung treten Risiken und negative Effekte immer deutlicher hervor,...