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Working time and competition in the transport sector

11 June 2010

What are the direct and indirect effects of the working time regulation in the transport sector? What are the consequences of inclusion or exclusion of self-employed drivers in the working time regulatory regime on the competition in the sector? Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe from the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) analyses in his article the different options and advises Europe which road it should take.

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About the author

Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe*

Dr. phil. Dieter Plehwe works for the research unit “Internationalisation and organisation” of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). He was lecturer at the Yale University in Connecticut, USA and visiting Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria. His expertise lies in the 20th century political economy; he is doing research, and published about comparative political economy of regional integration in Europe and North America, multinational companies and industrial relations and development in economics and politics.


The Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) is an in 1969 founded institute with 150 German and international researchers. The institute closely cooperates with Berlin universities and is funded by the German Federal government and the state of Berlin. The WZB does research about, among others, labour market, social inequality and problems of the welfare state, markets, competition and governance, democracy and civil society.




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