As the German employment system can be generally characterised as highly protective and favourable to employees in respect to their labour rights, democratic participation in the economic sphere and the level of social protection, this article addresses the question of the consequences of these...

Eine nüchterne Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen tarifpolitischen Entwicklungstrends: Gewerkschaften in Niedriglohnbranchen und ihre Bemühungen, tariflose Zustände zu beenden und der Tariferosion Einhalt zu gebieten.

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

Incomplete monetary union and Europe's current crisis -- From order to disorder : how monetary union changed national labor markets -- Monetary regimes, sectoral wage relations and the current account crisis in the EMU south : empirical evidence -- National central banks promoting inflation...