inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing … company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …

perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional … permanent and temporary jobs, working time adjustment, wage flexibility and active and passive labour market policies. The paper … internal flexibility. At the same time, however, it appears that the crisis has – at least in some cases – contributed to a …

substitution. These conditions are then empirically investigated, in a framework that is flexible and does not lose its flexibility …

version of the basic file covers now the years 1975 to 1995 and contains for the first time information on Eastern Germany for …

of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility …-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the varying institutional configurations by which flexibility is achieved. In order … to capture different patterns of flexibility, we differentiate between five types of flexibility which can be combined …

receive the largest wage penalty of doing housework. Timing and flexibility of housework turn out to be more important than …