Die Autorin behandelt die allokativen Wirkungen des Kündigungsschutzes und der Regelungen temporärer Arbeitsverträge auf die Höhe und Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit und den Jobturnover. Elke Jahn zeigt, daß sich die vor allem vom kontinentalen Arbeitsrecht vertretene These, der...

This paper aims to relate the issue of the Motherhood Wage Penalty to the institutional framework "Varieties of Capitalism." Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we perform cross-national analyses on the discrepancy in wages between mothers with young children and females without...

The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender-based discrimination by employers at the point of...