This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...

Pilotstudie der Universität Hannover. Forschungsobjekte sind die technischen Facharbeiter und Angestellten der Auto-, Maschinenbau- und IT-Branchen, die sich (zumeist) durch ein hohes Berufsethos auszeichnen und nun in Konflikt mit der zunehmenden Kapitalverwertung stehen. In Bewegung geraten...

The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...