"The years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe brought with them the unprecedented - in these societies - phenomenon of restructuring with dismissals and growing unemployment. Moreover with the emergence and development of the private sector, new enterprises started to leave former...

"This paper discusses free immigration to regulated labour markets (as in Europe) and to unregulated labour markets (as in the US), and explores the implications for migration flows of collective agreements, employment protection laws, product market regulations etc. It is argued that the...

This volume contains the papers and the supplementary papers presented at the 37th Ottobeuren Seminar on the subject of "labor contracts." They deal with the reasons for and the effects of regulations in individual and collective labor contracts. Their purpose is to contribute to a better...

Als weiterer Redner beim 3. Munich Economic Summit äußerte sich Prof. Giuseppe Bertola, Universitá di Torino, zu den aus seiner Sicht notwendigen Reformen in Europa. Er unterstrich in seinem Vortrag vor allen Dingen, dass nicht nur die Arbeitsmärkte, sondern auch andere Bereiche reformiert...