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The article examines both the current state and past performance of the economic convergence process between east and west Germany with particular emphasis on the convergence of wages and salaries. In addition, the associated consequences regarding...
Based on combined data from the German Pension Insurance Fund and the Federal Employment Agency (BASiD 2007) we analyse factors which increase the risk of receiving a low pension despite long periods of insurance. We define a low pension as being a...
The political handling of the financial and economic crisis presents the European nation-states with considerable challenges.. Measures to counter the effects of the crisis as well as the political process leading to those measures may have...
Trade unions in the German and U.S hospital sectors are facing increasing marketisation leading to work intensification for employees. Mandatory staffing levels can moderate this trend. Drawing on a combination of organising and social movement...
In this article we present the dispersion of collective bargaining agreements according to firm size, industries and federal states using the latest data from the IAB establishment panel. In 2016 about 51% of the workforce in west and 36% in east...
This article is based on a study investigating the impact of working time mismatches, which are defined as the difference between desired and actual working hours, on dimensions of work-life-balance. Based on a theoretical stress model the empirical...
The IG Metall (metalworkers’ union) is a mirror of society – this was the conclusion made following a current study carried out by the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM). IG Metall requested scientists at the institute...
The demand for public health and the corresponding work and employment conditions are indispensable to politically sustainable social development. In view of the major social trends, both the European Commission and the German Parliament appeal for...