Rund 80 % aller Erwerbstätigen haben familiäre Anforderungen zu erfüllen. Untersuchungen zur familienfreundlichen Personalführung aus den 90er Jahren deuteten jedoch darauf hin, dass es vor allem große Unternehmen sind, die Arbeitsplätze familienfreundlich gestalten. Die Überprüfung der...

The US and many European countries are witnessing substantial changes in the wage structure (Autor et al. 2006; Dustmann et al., 2009). Previous research has focused on changing returns to education and experience (Katz and Murphy, 1992), changes in the workforce composition (Lemieux, 2006), or the...

The systematic co-operation in R&D involving two or more enterprises or companies working with research organisations, suppliers, customers or even competitors has become a popular instrument of strategic management. As new empirical results from the IfM Bonn show, more than a quarter of all...

This study provides the first econometric analysis on the dynamic dimension of establishment-level codetermination in Germany. We hypothesize that learning implies a change in the nature and scope of codetermination over time. Using unique data from small- and medium-sized establishments, our...

We analyze the relationship between social attitudes on gender equality and firms' pay-setting behavior by combining information about regional votes relative to gender equality laws with a large data set of multi-branch firms and workers. The results show that multi-branch firms pay more...

Although participation in continuing vocational training is often found to be associated with considerable individual benefits, a puzzlingly large number of people still do not take part in training. In order to solve the puzzle we distinguish between temporary and chronic non-participants....

Forschung und Entwicklung von Unternehmen sollen künftig auch in Deutschland steuerlich gefördert werden. Ende Februar 2019 hat das Bundesfinanzministerium erstmals konkrete Vorschläge dazu veröffentlicht. Gibt es die Notwendigkeit einer steuerlichen Förderung von privater Forschung und...