Partizipatives Management gilt nicht laenger nur als „humaner“ Gegenentwurf zu den restriktiven Arbeitsbedingungen tayloristischer Praegung, sondern ist mittlerweile zentraler Gegenstand eines neuen Managementverstaendnisses. Bei aller „Partizipationseuphorie“ deuten vereinzelte...

We present a sorting model in which workers with greater ability and greater risk tolerance move into performance pay jobs and contrast it with the classic agency model of performance pay. Estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel confirm testable implications drawn from our sorting model....

Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...

Self-employed workers account for between 8 and 30 % of participants in the labor markets of OECD countries (Blanchower, Self-employment: more may not be better, 2004). This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium model of the labor market that accounts for this sizable proportion....

This paper contributes to the literature on overeducation by empirically investigating the wage penalty of job-education mismatch among Ph.D. holders who completed their studies in Italy; a country where the number of new doctoral recipients has dramatically increased over recent years while...

This paper investigates job characteristics that German training companies could use as a signal to apprentices to lower the quit intentions of apprentices and further to maximize their own probability to cover occurred net costs. Moreover, the results could also be used as policy implications...

Ein starkes zeitliches Engagement im Beruf ist eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die Realisierung von Karrierezielen in der Wirtschaft. Dies könnte die Ursache dafür sein, dass lediglich jeder zweite Mann und nur jede dritte Frau einem beruflichen Aufstieg einen hohen Stellenwert beimisst. Das...

Working conditions exert a major influence on accidents and illnesses at work as well as on job satisfaction and health, yet very little research has examined the determinants of working conditions. By exploiting the Italian Labour Force Survey, this paper provides evidence on the underlying...

A unique dataset from Italy is used to study the effect of unfavorable business cycle conditions at entry on future workplace safety of young workers. We find that higher local unemployment rates at entry have a positive effect both on severe injuries and non-severe injuries. While the impact of...