"Organizational change is characterized by different measures of business policy, work organization and personnel policy, e.g. delayering, teamwork, job-rotation, further training and education, incentive payment and flexible working time. These measures work both, alone and in combination, on...

"This paper presents recent empirical evidence on the extent and determinants of employment dynamics and job mobility, building on economic theory and German labor market institutions. In particular, it identifies dynamic and immobile segments of the labor market. Conclusions are drawn with...

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of work-sharing as a tool against unemployment, within a simple model where unemployment is induced by a binding minimum wage. To be effective, policies such as working time reduction or early retirement require that the workforce be homogeneous enough: The...

This study argues that aggregate demand management policies alone (which have traditionally been used to stabilize economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market policies such as work sharing programs.The use of...

The U.S. criminal justice industrial complex (CJIC) consumes goods and services from industries ranging from health care, textiles, wood, metal to many products and proprietary strategies related to security, including specific architectural engineering designs. There are unfortunately millions...

While overall production of the manufacturing industry has contracted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, total employment levels have not undergone a major adjustment.Unlike the service industry, which saw an immediate reduction in employment, the manufacturing industry has more-or-less maintained...

Should a nation extend legal rights to those who enter the country illegally? The Supreme Court recently addressed this question when it held that unauthorized immigrants who are fired illegally for unionizing cannot recover monetary remedies. This has led to a significant decline in employment...

L'evaluation des politiques d'emploi, qui connait un developpement relativement recent en France, est plus ancienne aux Etats-Unis. Ceci justifie le double propos de cet ouvrage : rendre plus explicites les liens unissant les conceptions de l'evaluation et leurs referents theoriques plus ou...