A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...

This paper estimates the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Job search theory implies that if Unemployment Insurance (UI) extensions do not affect wages conditional on the month of unemployment exit, then reservation wages do not bind on average. Then, UI extensions affect mean...

<DIV><DIV>  <DIV>The long-term impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technological change on workers is increasingly being studied by economists. At the nexus of labor economics, industry studies, and industrial organization, <I>The Analysis of Firms and Employees</I> presents new findings about these impacts...</i></div></div></div>

"On January 1st, 1997, minimum wages were introduced in the German main construction sector. We examine the effects of this wage regulation on various aspects of the labour market of this sector, particularly the effects on wages and employment. In East Germany, at the time of its introduction,...

"The project 'Quality of work and economic success' examines the correlation between the implementation of sustainable human resource (HR) management approaches, the quality of work and the success of a company. The goal is to identify development processes and approaches for promising measures...

"Die seit 1973 aufgebaute Beschäftigtenstatistik ist neben der Volks- und Berufszählung, dem Mikrozensus und der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS) eine der für die Sozialforschung wichtigsten Datenquellen der deutschen Sozialstatistik. Angesichts der Bedeutung, die die...

Auf der Basis eines theoretischen Modells zur Bestimmung der wichtigsten Determinanten wurde die berufliche Mobilität am westdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt empirisch untersucht. Die Analyse wurde mit Daten der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe, die aus der Historikdatei der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit gezogen...

"Ziel des Beitrags ist es, einige wesentliche Unterschiede in den regionalen Erwerbsmöglichkeiten von Frauen herauszuarbeiten. In einem primär deskriptiven Ansatz werden dazu die 167 westdeutschen Arbeitsmarktregionen einer multivariaten Typisierung unterzogen, wobei als Typisierungsverfahren...

"Using the data of the IAB employment sample, the inter-company labour mobility for the 1979 and 1985 cohorts of new entrants to the labour market was analysed. The matters studied were the distribution of the length of job tenure in the first and second company, as well as survival functions...

"This article examines the extent to which the structure of foreign workers in three different types of local labour market adapted to the respective structure of indigenous workers between 1980 and 1990. The Ruhr district is examined as an example of a traditional industrial region, Frankfurt...