This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...

Dieses Papier fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse einer Studie zusammen, die von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung finanziert und von April 2003 bis Mai 2005 gemeinsam von Tobias Hagen und dem Verfasser am Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim erarbeitet wurde. Die Gesamtstudie...

This study addresses the impact of offshorability (a job characteristic indicating how easily a job can be offshored) on employment changes and worker mobility in Germany. A composite measure of offshorability for German data is used which broadens existing measurements such as Blinder (2009)....

In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one's vote may turn the balance in favour of one´s preferred...