Purpose: Increased investments in employee further training have resulted in a growing interest in ensuring and improving the quality of these measures. However, little is known about the operational decision to initiate an evaluation of further training. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is...

Although collusive tax evasion by buyers and sellers of commodities and also by employers and employees is widespread all over the world, it has rarely been analyzed in the tax evasion literature. To fill this gap and to compare collusive tax evasion with independent tax evasion, this paper...

Job mobility offers opportunities for workers to obtain wage increases, but returns to job changes differ considerably. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility types offer alternative strategies to improve one's...

Der Beitrag untersucht Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen, welche im Rahmen von Arbeitsgelegenheiten mit Mehraufwandsentschädigung, sogenannten Ein-Euro-Jobs, von Betriebs- und Verwaltungsstätten durchgeführt werden können. Da von einem positiven Einfluss von Bildungsmaßnahmen auf die...

The aim of this paper is to analyze why people consider other determinants than performance as important for the evaluation of wage fairness. This question arose from the empirical observation that a considerable proportion of respondents of the Swiss labor market survey reported that one's...

Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals...

Mit dem Abschluss der allgemeinbildenden Schule werden wichtige Weichen für das künftige Erwerbsleben gestellt. Die Absolventinnen und Absolventen haben die Möglichkeit, eine berufliche Ausbildung in einem Betrieb oder an einer beruflichen Schule zu beginnen, eine weiterführenden Schule zu...