"Trotz eines voraussichtlich zunehmenden Angebots an qualifizierten Frauen bei gleichzeitigem Fachkräftemangel erwarten gegenwärtig in den alten Bundesländern weniger Betriebe eine Expansion ihrer weiblichen Belegschaft, als dies bei der Beschäftigungsentwicklung der letzten faktisch der...

"An adequate supply of highly qualified workers is a central pre-requisite for the ability of peripheral, structurally weak regions to develop. In order to take advantage of endogenous potentials, bottlenecks in human potential must be overcome by means of support from outside. An important...

"Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-managers and hired managers differ in their discretion to engage in profit-reducing taste discrimination...

"For many years there have been lively debates about the integration of women in the labour market, especially in terms of equality between women and men or the integration of women in management positions. In 2008 the data from the IAB Establishment Panel (Fischer et al. 2009) shed light on the...

This EU supported Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) had been conducted by a European Consortium composed of eight research institutions. Ifo's part within this larger programme was (a) to analyse the fiscal effects of privatization and (b) to assess the valuation of privatization...

"In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...

Der Bericht weißt auf eine neue Einrichtung des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Wirtschaft hin. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rationalisierungskuratoriums der Deutschen Wirtschaft Sachsen wurde das Förderprogramm "Begleitende Beratung - Coaching" entwickelt. Das Programm bietet den...