This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013. The book also aims to examine the effect of labor policy reforms on individual, household and...

The debate on whether high standards of labour market legislation affect economic growth and the rate of employment is topical and important. The contributors to this book address three main issues: * how Taiwan's labour market was able to work so well prior to 1996, maintaining full employment...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- A. The Future of the Working Society -- The Future of the Working Society / Fiirstenberg, Friedrich -- Labour as Factor of Production or Yardstick for Distribution / Blum, Reinhard -- B. Theoretical Approaches to the Analysis...

The chapter discusses the role played by labor market institutions in shaping the dynamics of wages, employment, and unemployment across European countries and the United States. The first part of the chapter uses simple, but formal models to show that the greater job security granted to...

In this lecture I first give an explanation for invidious preferences based on the (evolutionary) competition for resources. Then I show that these preferences have wide ranging and empirically relevant effects on labor markets, such as: workplace skill segregation, gradual promotions, wage...

Die Einführung des Euro als einer gemeinsamen europäischen Währung war umstritten. Vielfach wurden erhebliche Wachstumsverluste und Verwerfungen befürchtet. In dieser Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, daß sich für Deutschland aus der Europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) eine Reihe von Vorteilen...