"Joinery, Joists and Gender: A Woodworking History for the 21st Century is the first publication of its kind to survey the long and rich histories of women and gender non-conforming persons who work in wood. Written for craft practitioners, design students, and readers interested in the...

Diese Kurzexpertise untersucht die Beschäftigungssituation Älterer im Dachdeckerhandwerk, also einer Berufsgruppe, die in der Öffentlichkeit oft als Beleg dafür angeführt wird, dass Beschäftigte in körperlich belastenden Tätigkeiten die Regelarbeitsgrenze nicht erreichen können.

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

Der seit 1997 im Dachdeckerhandwerk eingeführte und seit 2003 bundeseinheitlich geregelte, allgemeinverbindliche Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive...

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...

Der Geltungsbereich des Mindestlohns erstreckt sich laut Tarifvertrag auf alle gewerblichen, sozialversicherungspflichtigen und volljährigen Arbeitnehmer von Betrieben und selbstständigen Betriebsabteilungen des Dachdeckerhandwerks. Dies umfasst entgegen dem Wortlaut des Tarifvertrages auch...

Introduction -- Furniture design: sharing knowledge among craftspeople -- Pattern books: communicating between producers and consumers -- Forming taste and style: consumers' needs and participation -- The showroom as mediator -- Furniture repairs and services: building a clientele -- Taste,...

We use a dataset describing ownership of productive assets in the carpentry trade to evaluate several factors influencing the allocation of asset ownership between an employer and his employees. The findings suggest that the allocation involves a tradeoff between two incentive effects...