In this article, we study the impact of changes of total labor costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a period, 1990 to 1998, that saw sudden and large changes in these costs. We use longitudinal data from the French Labor Force survey ("enquête emploi") in order to understand the...

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...

Contract theory predicts that workers are remunerated based on all available unbiased individual performance measures. In the real world, measures are often biased: tasks are too complex to include all measures, unforeseen contingencies occur for which contracts specify nothing, and the...

Das Buch geht von drei möglichen Strategien zur langfristigen Bewältigung der Folgen des Demografischen Wandels aus und untersucht eine davon eingehend: die Erhöhung der Kinderzahl. Die Autoren stellen die Frage, warum die Geburtenziffer in Deutschland als zu gering erachtet wird und leiten...