"There has been no study for Germany of how far and under what conditions layoffs are accepted by the population. Principles of distributive justice, rules of procedural justice, attribution theory and psychological contract theory form the framework of the analysis. Key findings are: Generous...

"The paper examines the company determinants of part-time work and so-called mini-jobs and midi-jobs. The subsample of the IAB establishment panel for Lower Saxony for the period 2000 to 2004 is used for the empirical analysis. From a theoretical viewpoint any of the three employment forms could...

There has been no study for Germany of how far and under what conditions layoffs are accepted by the population. Principles of distributive justice, rules of procedural justice, attribution theory and psychological contract theory form the framework of the analysis. Key findings are: Generous...

The paper examines the company determinants of part-time work and so-called mini-jobs and midi-jobs. The subsample of the IAB establishment panel for Lower Saxony for the period 2000 to 2004 is used for the empirical analysis. From a theoretical viewpoint any of the three employment forms could...

"The paper examines the company determinants of part-time work and so-called mini-jobs and midi-jobs. The subsample of the IAB establishment panel for Lower Saxony for the period 2000 to 2004 is used for the empirical analysis. From a theoretical viewpoint any of the three employment forms could...