Was zu guter Arbeitsqualität zählt, sei es mit Blick auf Arbeitsbedingungen, sei es mit Blick auf das Ergebnis, ist gegenwärtig Wandlungen unterworfen - Wandlungen, die einerseits von neuen Managementanforderungen ausgehen, andererseits in veränderten Ansprüchen der Be-schäftigten...

In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmentingtechnical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increasein the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This conrms theassessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions betweenendogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging.Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and howpopulation aging aects the relative scarcity of factors of production,...

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor marketproblems such as low employment and high and persistent unemployment which can beexplained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market adaptability...

I research the consequences of changes in the deductibility of commuting costs in Ger-many from 2001 to 2006. Offcial gures provided by the Federal Statistical Office highlightthe fact that German taxpayers claimed deductions for commuting allowances to the tuneof 23-29 billion e over the years...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remainconsiderable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Using theconcept of strategic episodes, this paper develops an endogenous theory of change, where thesources of change...

Während die industrialisierte Landwirtschaft des Nordens gigantische Lebensmittelüberschüsse produziert, hungern auf der Südhalbkugel der Erde Millionen von Menschen. Doch warum kommt die nötige Agrarwende nur so langsam voran? Werner Onken erläutert in diesem Buch, wie sehr sie durch das...

This Working Paper has two principal objectives. The first is to describe the main trajectories of development of public expenditure aggregates in OECD countries during the period 1960-2001. The second is to provide a more detailed analysis of expenditure trends in these countries in the period...