Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58570 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6137
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment benefits, employment protection and vocational training. The paper shows that institutions determine the mode of adjustment to changing economic conditions and the role of standard vs. non-standard contracts. Whereas internal flexibility via shorter working time was a dominant mode of adjustment during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was less prominent.
Subjects: 
labor market flexibility
Germany
Brazil
working time
dismissal protection
JEL: 
J21
J42
J52
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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