aspekte der arbeitsmarktmechanik: einige ueberlegungen zu mengenkoordinationsprozessen auf strukturierten arbeitsmaerkten

abstract: the recent labour economics' literature has stressed the proposition that the labour market is not primarily a bidding market for selling existing skills. informational imperfections and the lack of future markets impose several restrictions on labour market contracting modes. segmented la...

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Link(s) zu Dokument(en):IHS Publikation
1. Verfasser: Pichelmann, Karl
Format: IHS Series NonPeerReviewed
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: institut fuer hoehere studien 1982
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Zusammenfassung:abstract: the recent labour economics' literature has stressed the proposition that the labour market is not primarily a bidding market for selling existing skills. informational imperfections and the lack of future markets impose several restrictions on labour market contracting modes. segmented labour market theories are now established as an alternative mainstream of labour economics to the standard neoclassical human capital approach. this paper suggests to describe labour market transactions in terms of a bilateral sequential bargaining model. it tries to analyze some features of labour market adjustment processes in a "structuralist" institutional setting and investigates into empirically observed behavioral regularities in the austrian labour market. the distribution of information and of search activities among workers is examined; the next chapter is devoted to problems of employment stability and mobility patterns instructured labour markets. finally some aspects of quantityadjustments to labour market disequilibria are analyzed.;