Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die relative Wirksamkeit von Vermittlungsgutscheinen und Beauftragungen Dritter mit der gesamten Vermittlung im direkten Vergleich. Die Untersuchung basiert auf den Prozessdaten…
The performance of young and newly founded firms depends largely to the human capital of the firm owner. The entrepreneur is therefore one of the main success factors for the firm. Yet entrepreneurs differ…
This study investigates institutional and economic reasons for downward wage rigidity regarding three occupational skill groups. Based on a survey of 801 firms in Germany and an econometric analysis, we find…
This study compares the wages and wage rigidity of entrants with incumbent workers in the West German labour market, based on individual data from 1975 to 1995. On average entrants (around 11 per cent of the…
In April 2002 German government introduced job placement vouchers as a new instrument of active labour market policy to foster the transition of unemployed to jobs. This paper investigates the demand, the…