Die vorliegende Publikation ist eine Studie über die Arbeitsbedingungen in der österreichischen Gastronomiebranche (Restaurants und Hotels). Vorgestellt werden ihre Hauptmerkmale, der rechtliche Rahmen bzw. arbeitsmarktliche Regulation, die Arbeitsbedingungen, der Zugang der Arbeitnehmer zur...

The impact of private equity firms on employment in their portfolio companies is a controversial topic widely discussed in academia and in practice in recent years. A large body of research has resulted from this debate. The studies are focused on different aspects of employment and are based on...

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of datafor industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has anumber of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth.Looking at the 2004 instalment...

We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’ labor productivity.Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in themanufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures of physical (as opposed torevenue) TFP to instrument...