receive the largest wage penalty of doing housework. Timing and flexibility of housework turn out to be more important than … Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to register information on hourly wages and other labour market variables for … the level of housework, and women, particularly at the high end of the conditional wage distribution, who time their …

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 … shift of the complete employment history of each person on the time axis. Comparing the anonymised with the original IAB … of the file. Though the distribution of establishment transitions along the time axis cannot not be reproduced with the …

company employment practices where we can observe growing reliance on mechanisms of internal flexibility for the skilled core …

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 … perspective taking into account different channels of external, internal and wage flexibility determined by both the institutional …

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour … issue of labour market flexibility in transition countries by studying the optimality and efficiency of labour usage among … variations over firms than over time. In the course of time there occurs both labour saving technical change and an increase in …

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 …