By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States, with most states enacting at least one female-specific work regulation. We examine the impact of three previously unexplored legislation: seating, health and safety, and...

By the end of the nineteenth century, labor legislation for women had become a prominent issue in the United States, with most states enacting at least one female-specific work regulation. We examine the impact of three previously unexplored legislation: seating, health and safety, and...

Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) find that labor demand shocks in 19th-century Britain had an impact on master and servant prosecutions, as breaking an employee contract was a criminal offense until 1875. We first reproduce all regression tables in Naidu and Yuchtman (2013) and then test for robustness...

'Labour Law Utopias' engages with new socioeconomic ideas that look beyond the current growth-driven competitive market economy. It explores alternative approaches and what those would mean for work in general, and labour law in particular.

Schriften des Hugo Sinzheimer Instituts für Arbeits- und SozialrechtDer Klimaschutz ist eine der Kernfragen unserer Zeit. Aus der Pflicht zum Erhalt unserer natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen und der Unversehrtheit zukünftiger Generationen erwachsen dem Gesetzgeber Schutzpflichten, die potenziell...

Anwendungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI) begegnen uns bereits heute, wenn auch oft unbemerkt, im Privat- und im Arbeitsleben. Die KI-Forschung hat eine rasante Entwicklung genommen; viele Experten gehen davon aus, dass die grundlegenden Veränderungen noch bevorstehen. Was gestern noch fast...

We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...