Since the 1960s, several countries have adopted incomes policies to control inflation that was interpreted as the result of a distributional struggle between business and labour unions. This theoretical framework, termed the "battle of the mark-ups", has also formed the basis for estimating...

In the course of technological change and the globalisation of the labour market, the share of blue-collar workers employed by Austria's manufacturing industry has fallen sharply in the period from 2000 to 2010. While the number of white-collar workers remained roughly unchanged, the number of...