Die Auswirkungen von Mindestlöhnen auf das Beschäftigungsniveau werden seit längerer Zeit kontrovers diskutiert. Der Autor Klaas Würzburg hat das Ziel, die Hintergründe dieser Debatte nüchtern und unideologisch zu analysieren und zu bereichern. Es werden zunächst verschiedene...

This thesis is composed of three different chapters focusing on labour market policies, unemployment and the construction industry. The analyses aim to contribute to the microeconomic theory, proving three different concepts of externally caused variations, affecting both, the labour market...

The paper analyses in general the impact of digital labour platforms on employment in China, the key challenges and how digital labour platforms has contributed to job creation. It discusses in-depth the case of food delivery platforms and presents the findings about the impact of food-delivery...

Duration analysis has been widely used in the applied economic research since the late 1970s. The framework allows to examine the duration of time intervals and the rate of transition across a set of states over time. Many economic behaviors follow a similar pattern, such as transition from the...