We present a stochastic version of the single-level, multi-product dynamic lotsizingproblem subject to a capacity constraint. A production schedule has tobe determined for random demand so that expected costs are minimized and aconstraint based on a new backlog-oriented Sigma-service-level...

In Deutschland ist ein beunruhigendes Maß ansozialer Spaltung und politischer Frustration zuverzeichnen. Das belegen die Befunde der 2006/2007 veröffentlichten Prekariatsstudie1. Als Reaktiondarauf hat die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung dasProjekt Zukunft 2020 entwickelt. Es hat sich zurAufgabe...

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...

In this study, we regard the oligopolistic-oligopsonistic markets within the framework of a“double auction” in which both buyers and sellers make bids. To this end, we introduce gameswhere declarations of supply and demand functions (which need not be true) are treated asstrategic variables...

Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, whilein several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others theshare of employment in this sector did not significantly change...

With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data,it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data...

We develop a structural multi-factor labour demand model which distinguishes between eightlabour categories including non-standard types of employment such as marginalemployment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and total working hoursusing a new panel data set...

Innerhalb des gesamten deutschen Luftverkehrsmarktes gewinnt der Low Cost Carrier Markt schnell anBedeutung. Der gemeinsam von der ADV und dem DLR herausgegebene Low Cost Monitor informiertzweimal jährlich über wesentliche Merkmale der Low Cost Carrier (LCC) und aktuelle Entwicklungen indiesem...