"The IAB Establishment Panel was launched to obtain information on the demand side of the labor market. This data meets two requirements: providing high quality data for the scientific aims and having an information system for policy makers and practitioners. As it started in 1993 a rich data...

"Various intentions are pursued with the introduction of models of profit-sharing and capital participation for employees. In this paper the effect of employee participation in asset formation as an incentive to increase performance is examined as a way of raising the productivity within an...

Using data from the Microzensus 2004 we investigate differences in participation rates of different groups of employees - men and women, old and young, native Germans and foreigners in further training. The analysis shows that German and young employees participate more often in further...

We investigate the effect of profit sharing on establishments’ hirings, layoffs, and quits. Our principal argument is that profit sharing increases wage flexibility and also aligns wages with a changing marginal revenue product. Because employment stability makes their human capital investment...

"In diesem Beitrag wird anhand der Daten der 1. Welle des IAB-Betriebspanels der Einfluß einer Reihe von Variablen als Determinanten der betrieblichen Lohnhöhe und der übertariflichen Bezahlung untersucht und damit die Bedeutung des Markt-, des Effizienzlohnansatzes und des...

"Since 1993 the IAB has maintained a representative information system of the demand side of the labour market in the form of its establishment panel for western Germany. With the inclusion of the new federal states in 1996, the formation of the IAB panel was completed in the whole of Germany....

"In diesem Beitrag wird anhand der Daten der 1. Welle des IAB-Betriebspanels der Einfluß einer Reihe von Variablen als Determinanten der betrieblichen Lohnhöhe und der übertariflichen Bezahlung untersucht und damit die Bedeutung des Markt-, des Effizienzlohnansatzes und des...