We analyse how countries' innovation outcomes are affected by national legislations of worker participation to corporate governance. We develop a model of employee representation laws (ERL) and innovation in the presence of incomplete labour contracts and predict heterogeneous ERL effects across...

Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage...

Der Beitrag untersucht empirisch auf der Basis der WSI-Betriebs- und Personalrätebefragung 2021, welche Maßnahmen die betrieblichen Akteure, Management und Betriebsräte, vereinbart haben, um bedrohte Beschäftigungsverhältnisse zu sichern und perspektivisch die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit zu...