Is reducing paid working time (WT) a potential win-win climate change mitigation strategy,
which may simultaneously serve environmental sustainability and human well-being? While …

Economic degrowth is ecologically desirable, and possibly inevitable; but under what
conditions can it become socially sustainable? How can we have full employment and …

Using various methods, the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition, and
OECD countries is estimated. Average size varies from 12 percent of GDP for OECD …

Illicit work, social security fraud, economic crime and other shadow economy activities are
fast becoming an international problem. This second edition uses new data to reassess …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United
States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion …

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch ist das Ergebnis langjähriger Beschäftigung mit der Sozialpolitik
in Forschung und Lehre. Es stellt–nach einer knapp gehaltenen wissenschaftstheoretischen …

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person of working age per week, but the
Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the …

Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment.
This paper reviews the most pertinent theoretical and recent empirical contributions to the …

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zu einer grundlichen~ berarbeitnn~. Dics bctrifft nicht nur die Datcn, die soweit wie moglich …