The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges, it is important to understand the impact of a worker's age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in Germany and Norway are treated differentlyin the hiring process. (...)

Das Grundgesetz gebietet es, das europäische Recht auch: Doch die deutschen Gewerkschaften schaffen es nicht aus eigener Kraft, die Entgeltdiskriminierung in den Tarifverträgen zu beseitigen...

Im Rahmen der europäischen Gemeinschaftsinitiative (GI) EQUAL führte das SOFI von 2002 bis 2005 die Evaluationund wissenschaftliche Begleitung der Entwicklungspartnerschaft „Frauen in t.i.m.e.“ durch. Der folgende Beitrag erläutertdie Ziele und Grundsätze der GI EQUAL sowie der...

Wir sind uns darüber auf jeden Fall im Klaren und das sehen wir ja an diesem Hause, mit fünfzig gehört niemand zum alten Eisen, sonst wäre ja ein Großteil von uns überhaupt nicht mehr hier...

How and whether judges should be held accountable is a key issue in the design of a legalsystem. Thirty-seven of the forty-eight continental states use some method of judicial selectionwhich involves a direct role for citizens in selecting or re-appointing the judiciary. We identifytwo...

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

This paper sets out an overarching theoretical framework for explaining andexploring the processes of social exclusion, incorporating themes from theliterature. It proposes that inclusion hinges on participation in socialrelationships enacted through ‘transactional processes’, where...

We develop a stylized dynamic model of highway policing in which a non-racist police officer exhibits a cognitive bias: relative overconfidence. The officer is given incentives to arrest criminals but faces a per stop cost which increases when the racial mix of her stops differs from that of the...

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1) the unconditional GWG is 15 percent for blue-collar and 26 percent for white-collar workers; (2) conditional on tenure, entry age, schooling, and working hours, the GWG is 13...

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...