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...

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate natural experiments that may help to study a variety of issues in labor economics, including work sharing effect on job creation or productivity, labor relations or adaptation...

This report presents a comparison of national industrial relations systems in the EU25, exploring the differences between individual systems and their effects on the economy. The report is based on the more detailed findings of a research project entitled "Quality of industrial relations:...

Institutional Frameworks and Labor Market Performance produces an in-depth analysis of the functioning of various labor market institutions in both the USA and Germany. Particular emphasis is given to the substantial differences between the US and Germany in the ways important areas are...

Die gegenwärtigen gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche und Veränderungen werden häufig mit Arg-wohn betrachtet, da Sicherheiten und Selbstverständlichkeiten abnehmen, Flexibilität und Un-gewissheit in Arbeit und Leben steigen dafür umso mehr an. Wie alle Veränderungen bergen auch diese unstrittig...

Dieses Arbeitspapier stellt die ersten zentralen empirischen Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts zu "Arbeitszeiten und Arbeitsformen in High-Tech-Unternehmen der "new economy" dar. Untersucht wurde am Beispiel der Arbeitszeit die Regulierung von hochqualifizierter Arbeit in Unternehmen der IT- und...