Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the course of the modern empirical literature. We focus mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing...

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Two politicoeconomic equilibria arise from our model, one with little protection of insiders on capital and labor markets, and another one with...

This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...

Mit der Tagung "Gewerkschaftsrechte heute" wurde das zehnjährige Jubiläum des Hugo Sinzheimer Instituts - nach pandemiebedingten Verschiebungen - am 23. und 24. Juni 2022 nachgefeiert. Gemeinsam mit Gästen aus den Gewerkschaften, der Arbeits- und Sozialgerichtsbarkeit, der Wissenschaft, den...

For more than two decades, a growing global movement has been promoting the social and solidarity economy (SSE) as a viable alternative socioeconomic approach to the manyfold challenges of sustainable development. This growing movement has been advocating for the UN system and its member states...

Die Öffnung der industriellen Beziehungen für Anforderungen des Umweltschutzes ist auf europäischer und internationaler Ebene bisher nur ansatzweise und in sehr unterschiedlichem Ausmaß erfolgt. Dies geschieht teils durch die Erweiterung des Arbeits- und Gesundheitsschutzes um...

This paper presents a positive model which shows that institutional setups on capital and labor markets might be intertwined by politicoeconomic forces. Some countries especially in continental Europe exhibit a corporatist politicoeconomic equilibrium with a sustantial protection of insiders on...