Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

This paper studies wage structure characteristics and their incentive effects within one firm. Based on personnel records and an employee survey, we provide evidence that wages are attached to jobs and that promotions play a dominant role as a wage determinant. We furthermore show that a...

Beschäftigungssicherheit wird in der Literatur zur Segmentierung des Arbeitsmarktes als ein wesentliches Strukturmerkmal interner Arbeitsmärkte hervorgehoben. Diesbezüglich stellt sich die Frage, welche Vorteile das Unternehmen aus einer in diesem Segment institutionell zugesicherten...