As the structure of the economy has changed over the past few decades, researchers and policy makers have been increasingly concerned with how these changes affect workers. In this book, leading economists examine a variety of important trends in the new economy, including inequality of earnings...

Many young employees work on a temporary basis, which entails significantly greater income risk than "permanent" work, even for jobs in the same occupation and at a similar wage. We find that this income uncertainty leads lenders to ration credit to temporary workers, precisely at the stage of...

In den neunziger Jahren hat sich in deutschen Unternehmen ein neuer Vereinbarungstyp etabliert: das betriebliche Bündnis für Arbeit. Mit ihm treffen Betriebsparteien Maßnahmen zur Sicherung von Beschäftigung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Im Zentrum stehen die Senkung der Arbeitskosten und die...