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According to economic analysis, common-law courts resolve individual legal disputes and create new, judge-made law. In this article, I study both functions in a civil-law context by analyzing data for nine German labor courts of appeal (Landesarbeitsgerichte) in the period 1980-1996. Output of...
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Controlling the performance of employed physicians, university professors, or tenured judges is a difficult managerial problem, because these professionals perform complex tasks that are hard to measure and because many of the economic incentives common to private-sector employees do not apply...
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Das Mitbestimmungsgesetz ist 30 Jahre nach seiner Verabschiedung Gegenstand sowohl einer wissenschaftlichen als auch einer politischen Debatte. Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrags ist das Verhältnis dieser beiden Diskurse. Dazu wird zunächst der Stand der empirischen Mitbestimmungsforschung...
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The latest trends and developments on employment-related collective bargaining in Germany during the reference period are analysed in this study. We start with a quantitative overview on recent collective agreements and then describe the main types of measures negotiated in the newly concluded...
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Die vorliegende Analyse setzt sich das Ziel, den Export als Bestimmungsfaktor für den Arbeitseinsatz wirtschaftstheoretisch zu begründen und empirisch zu identifizieren. Darüber hinaus soll untersucht werden, ob im Zeitverlauf möglicherweise unterschiedliche Reaktionsmuster zwischen der...
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We test Krugman’s (1991) notion of risk sharing in pooled labor markets as one of the micro-foundations of agglomeration economies, i.e. we examine whether firms share risks from idiosyncratic and sector specific shocks through labor pooling. Estimating wage functions we find that job turnover...
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By reporting data from a laboratory experiment, we provide clear evidence that people value procedures apart from their effects on consequences. We implement a game with one proposer who has distributive power over a pie and four responders who can invest in resistance against the proposer's...
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The specific and tacit knowledge of shopfloor employees are vital sources for innovative work behaviour. Firms can use these skills to increase the efficiency of process innovation in the stages of idea generation and implementation of new processes. This study examines the necessary conditions...
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Kollektive Aktivitäten werden organisiert und damit Kooperationsrenten ermöglicht, indem unter anderem Produktions- und Verteilungsprozesse institutionalisiert werden. Die Kooperationsrente im weitesten Sinne - und damit die gemeinsame Erfolgsgröße - ist die Wertschöpfung. Über formelle...
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