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 …

miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of internal flexibility. We argue that important … reforms, the nature of the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies in Germany, the extension of short-time work, the …

This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was …