This document is the Final Report of the cost analysis of the Entry-Exit and Registered Traveller Systems

Die im Jahre 1987 durch die Gartner Group initiierte TCO-Thematik (Total Cost of Ownership), hat sich besonders seit der intensiven Nutzung von Client/Server-Architekturen durch Unternehmen ab Mitte der 90er Jahre zu einem latenten Diskussionsgegenstand in der praxisorientierten Literatur zur...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...

"Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, I show that, in line with the existing literature for several countries, firms' adjustment costs for employment are characterized by a fixed and convex functional form. Furthermore, they are asymmetric with dismissal costs exceeding...

"The impact of atypical employment on the ability of the labour market to function depends on how it is used. In this paper we first define three motives for the use of atypical employment: adjustment to fluctuations in business activity, improvement of personnel selection by extending...

"The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

"German employment protection legislation has recently come under criticism. Some complain that the employment protection legislation no longer protects the employment relationship against the arbitrary termination by the employer. Others emphasize that dismissal protection restricts firms'...