The objective of this paper is to analyse the flexibility opportunities of firms to respond to increasing labour market requirements and heterogeneity. Thereby, we focus on two groups of workers and two kinds of management events. The two groups of workers are female and older workers, while...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the flexibility opportunities of firms to respond to increasing labour market requirements and heterogeneity. Thereby, we focus on two groups of workers and two kinds of management events. The two groups of workers are female and older workers, while...

Als letzter Redner im Sommersemester 2003 referierte Prof. Dr. Wernhard Möschel, Universität Tübingen, am 7. Juli im »Münchner Seminar« am ifo Institut zum Thema Tarifautonomie und Lohnfindung. Insbesondere zeigte er Möglichkeiten auf, im gegebenen rechtlichen Rahmen dem...

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 contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...