Ziel der Arbeit ist die Analyse von Lohndifferentialen. Der überwiegende Anteil der Studien erklärt Lohndifferentiale auf Basis der neoklassischen Theorie, derzufolge die Lohnhöhe das Ergebnis der Transaktionen von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage am Arbeitsmarkt sind. Beobachtbare...

Individual and company bargaining has increasingly supplanted sector and country collective bargaining leading to increasingly perforated and multi-layered national collective bargaining systems. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive categorization of bargaining and argue that both the...

According to the fiscal federalism literature sub-central budget constraints become softer when local governments are more dependent on revenues over which they have no discretion. As a consequence of higher ’transfer-dependency’, sub-central governments can expect to be bailed out by the...