"There has been no study for Germany of how far and under what conditions layoffs are accepted by the population. Principles of distributive justice, rules of procedural justice, attribution theory and psychological contract theory form the framework of the analysis. Key findings are: Generous...

"The paper examines the company determinants of part-time work and so-called mini-jobs and midi-jobs. The subsample of the IAB establishment panel for Lower Saxony for the period 2000 to 2004 is used for the empirical analysis. From a theoretical viewpoint any of the three employment forms could...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

Most fatal avalanche accidents in the Alps are caused by skiers and snowboarders. It has been one aim from the beginning to give guidelines for backcountry skiers in order to avoid avalanche accidents. About 10 years ago, the mountain guide Werner Munter developed a strategy for backcountry...

We use a long panel data set for four cohorts of male blue-collar workers entering into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the probability of participating in different employer-financed training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted...

This empirical research note uses large-scale German survey data in order to analyse the determinants of fair wage perceptions. The probability to perceive the own wage as fair increases significantly with earned wages and is larger if a works council exists. Moreover, works councils and...

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

Dieser empirische Beitrag nutzt verbundene Arbeitgeber-Arbeitnehmer-Daten des Statistischen Bundesamtes, um Lohndifferentiale zwischen Arbeitnehmern mit befristeten und unbefristeten Arbeitsverträgen zu schätzen. Der Datensatz erlaubt die Analyse der Lohndifferentiale innerhalb von Firmen und...

"This empirical research note uses linked employer-employee data from the German Federal Statistical Office to estimate wage differentials between workers with fixed-term contracts and permanent contracts. The data set allows to analyze wage differentials within firms and across the wage...

The authors address the issue of effectiveness of medical rehabilitation in terms of labor market outcomes by analyzing a large representative administrative panel data set for Germany. The research design focuses on socio-demographic group differences in before-after differences in days with...