Flexible work arrangements are on the rise in many countries, ranging from Germany's mini-jobs to UK's zero-hours contracts. These contracts allow for quick labor demand adjustments and are also seen as a way to discourage undeclared work, and more than 10 years ago Italy introduced what was...

Unreported labour by one worker in a firm increases the probability of detection for his fellow workers, not only for himself. The firm takes this external effect into account. As a consequence, unreported work becomes rationed by the firms demand, rather than determined by demand equal supply....

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

This paper addresses the issue of household demand for services in Poland when informal sector is taken into consideration. The aim of the study is threefold: (i) to investigate the factors influencing households expenses for services, (ii) to find the determinants of households' tax strategy...

The seminal paper by Pissarides and Weber (1989) is one of several previous studies trying to measure the size of the black economy. Pissarides and Weber compared the relationship between food expenditure and income in two groups of workers, self-employed and employees in employment, assuming...

Unreported labour by one worker in a firm increases the probability of detection for his fellow workers, not only for himself. The firm takes this external effect into account. As a consequence, unreported work becomes rationed by the firms demand, rather than determined by demand equal supply....

Ziel dieser Studie ist die empirisch fundierte Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Schattenwirtschaft und Arbeitsplatzschaffung. Die hier aufgefächerte Diskussion des Themas in Wirtschaft, Sozialpolitik und Gesellschaft, der weitere Diskurs und die empirische Fundierung erfordern eine klare und...

Das ifo Institut führt viermal im Jahr eine Unternehmensbefragung, die auch Sonderfragen zu aktuellen personalpolitischen Themen enthält, bei rund 1 000 Personalleitern aus verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbereichen durch. Die Ergebnisse der Sonderfrage zum Thema »Home Office« werden hier vorgestellt.

Das zentrale Thema des Human Resource Managements ist die Digitalisierung von Produktion und Arbeit sowie die damit verbundenen Möglichkeiten der Tele- und Cloudarbeit. Hier werden effizientere Lösungen des Personaleinsatzes ausgemacht. Dabei steht besonders auch die Clickarbeit im Zentrum des...