Institutional frameworks and labor market performance / Friedrich Buttler [and others] -- Work organization and training in American enterprises / Paul Osterman -- Works councils, unions, and firm performance / Bernd Frick and Dieter Sadowski -- Policy transferability and hysteresis / Daniel S. Hamermesh -- Why do Americans and Germans work different hours? / Linda Bell and Richard Freeman -- Institutional influences on interindustry wage differentials / Lutz Bellmann and Joachim Möller -- Profit sharing in German firms / Vivian Carstensen, Knut Gerlach and Olaf Hübler -- The German apprenticeship system / Wolfgang Franz and David Soskice -- Labor market policy, information, and hiring behavior / Robert J. Flanagan -- Different institutional arrangements for job placement / Friedrich Buttler and Ulrich Walwei -- Employment dynamics, firm growth, and new firm formation / Knut Gerlach and Joachim Wagner -- Labor adjustment under different institutional structures / Susan N. Houseman and Katharine G. Abraham -- The Macroperformance of the German labor market / Ronald Schettkat. |