In recent decades, German industry-level bargaining has often been blamed for the deterioration of firms’ competitiveness, as centrally negotiated wages are perceived to be particularly harmful to those firms…
More than half of the children in Germany under the age of six attend some sort of informal early education activities other than formal early education in daycare centers or family daycare. Among these…
How long workers stay in their jobs is of central importance for individuals’ work histories, employers’ personnel policies and the functioning of the labor market. Within and across industries, companies,…
Rising numbers of frail elderly and simultaneously shrinking numbers of informal carers pose a challenge to future viability of the mandatory and non-means-tested long-term care insurance in Germany (LTCI). In…
During the next decades, western societies at a varying speed face a demographic transition that more than doubles the number of elderly individuals in need of long-term care and that at the same time decreases…
Adverse weather conditions that hamper outdoor construction work have been the prime justification for promoting all-season employment in the construction sector in many European countries. The aim is to reduce…
In recent years, the long-run development of job stability has been of considerable interest in empirical economic research resulting in a large number of published studies. However, these studies do not…