This article reviews the relevance of the concept of the Internal Labor Market from the contemporary perspective thirty years after it was originally formulated. The narrow concept of internal labor markets associated with large, bureaucratic enterprises appears to be less relevant in the new...

Research on Internal Labor Markets (ILMs) has had enormous influence on social sciences since the seminal work by Peter Doeringer and Michael Piore, thirty years ago.This article discusses the past and current contribution of the ILM concept to the development of labor economics, organization...