In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-council-free counterparts. Such findings can only serve to buttress the strong theoretical and policy interest in the German...

Der positive Zusammenhang zwischen Firmengröße und Exporttätigkeit gilt als ein stilisierter Fakt: Gestützt auf deskriptive Befunde und Ergebnisse von Regressionsmodellen auf der Basis von Querschnittsdaten wird argumentiert, dass sowohl die Wahrscheinlichkeit zu exportieren als auch der...

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-emlployment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become self-employed to test for differences...

18 Studies, die sich auf Daten aus 20 hochentwickelten, sich entwickelnden und weniger entwickelten Ländern stützen, zeigen, dass die Durchschnittslöhne in exportierenden Firmen höher liegen als in nichtexportierenden Firmen aus gleichen Branche und Region. Die Existenz dieser Lohnzuschläge...

In its 1998 final report, the German Co-determination Commission identified a large and growing sector of the economy in which employees are covered neither by participation on company boards nor through the vehicle of works councils. The Commission argued that the steady erosion of...