Purpose - This study sets out to determine the effect of employment security on moonlighting in Ghana as a means to inform policy on enforcing issues of employment security. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the work of Shishko and Rostker (1976) in using the GLSS6 data by...

Die Fallstudien des Forschungsprojektes zeigen, dass ein erfolgreicher Einsatz des Initiativrechts nach § 92 a BetrVG durch die Betriebsräte stark mit einer beteiligungsorientierten Miteinbeziehung der Belegschaften als Arbeitsplatzexperten einhergeht. In gemeinsamen Diskussionen und...

Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, this article analyses the effects of workplace training in Germany on subjective job security. Using fixed-effects models, this article tests whether workplace training has positive effects on perceived job security, and if so, whether...

Das Projekt analysiert die institutionellen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen zukunftsorientierter Standort- und Beschäftigungssicherungsstrategien im Zuge der Umstrukturierung des Opel/GM-Konzerns am Beispiel des Standortes Bochum aus einzelbetrieblicher wie auch aus...

Sorting into public sector jobs may be motivated not only by the available income but also by other aspects, such as stronger demand for security or for social usefulness. The demand for larger job security - beside other factors - can be the consequence of family circumstances. We have...

The legal relationship between civil servants and the state, is not governed by the theory of sovereignty, which is relevant in the outer relationships between the state and its citizens, though it has some, limited effect on the inner relationships between the civil servant and the state organ,...

"We live in a tumbleweed society, where job insecurity is rampant and widely seen as inevitable. Companies are transforming the way they organize work. While new working conditions offer gains for some workers, others lose out. Home life offers little respite: while diverse types of families are...

There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...